- Look up
deviance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Deviance may
refer to:
Deviance (sociology),
actions or
behaviors that
violate social norms Deviancy...
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Deviance or the
sociology of
deviance explores the
actions or
behaviors that
violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well...
- In statistics,
deviance is a goodness-of-fit
statistic for a
statistical model; it is
often used for
statistical hypothesis testing. It is a generalization...
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Workplace deviance, in
group psychology, may be
described as the
deliberate (or intentional)
desire to
cause harm to an
organization – more specifically...
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Normalization of
deviance,
according to
American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the
process in
which deviance from
correct or
proper behavior or rule becomes...
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Positive deviance (PD) is an
approach to
behavioral and
social change. It is
based on the idea that,
within a community, some
individuals engage in unusual...
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types of organizations, organi-cultural
deviance was
found to be present. In
engaging in organi-cultural
deviance,
these organizations leverage four resources:...
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Double deviance theory states, "women are
treated more
harshly [than men] by the
criminal justice system...
because they are
guilty of
being doubly deviant...
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Applied Social Science in 1994 and a post-graduate master's
degree in Crime,
Deviance and
Social Policy in 1996 from
Lancaster University. Later, in 2006, he...
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sociological perspective,
deviance is
defined as the
violation or
drift from the
accepted social norms.
Secondary deviance is a
stage in a
theory of deviant...
