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What does deviance mean?

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Noun
  1. (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
  2. A person or thing that differs from the expected. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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But marks are deducted for any sort of imagination or deviance from the text.
Therefore they become less integrated and thus are perceived as subject to higher risk from all forms of social deviance.
Around the same time, Durkheim was proposing that deviance served an important social function.
Almost always used by outsiders rather than inhabitants of the communities so labeled, the term connoted both poverty and deviance.
Haywood said the sharp-eyed inspectors are on the lookout for the slightest deviance from the rules.
Known for its dubious deviance from its claims, this issue is no different.

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