Crime, the violation of formally enacted law, is formal deviance. From LearnThat.org.
We cannot imagine a difference in which all deviance is equally valued. From Wordnik.com. ["American Able" and The Beauty Way] Reference
It is alredy doing that, more seriously than the attribution of "deviance" to nurtural factors. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
West Side Story, reminds me that other kinds of "deviance" have gone through a similar progression. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
But this dog whistle to the electorate isn't really about protecting society from the "deviance" of homosexuality. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Pick out a name which suggests the deviance of age. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
Hey - they're Republicans - any deviance is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama] Reference
"We have no indication there was any deviance from procedure,". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Not about deviancy versus no deviance, or encouraging deviancy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2004] Reference
Sociologists tell us that deviance plays a positive role for society. From Wordnik.com. [BJ Gallagher: Celebrities Behaving Badly] Reference
This was in direct deviance from the demands of one of the principles. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All of the diagnoses in the DSM are deviance from normal, abnormality based. From Wordnik.com. [Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem?] Reference
It is as a result of this climate, at least in part, that such deviance as Maj. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Robinson: Maj. Nidal Hasan and the "Desperation Explanation"] Reference
In the study of organizational behavior, it's called normalization of deviance. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Alex Benzer: How to Toss Toxic Mates in 3 Simple Steps] Reference
What could possibly explain this overwhelming deviance from professed moral standards?. From Wordnik.com. [Win McCormack: Introduction to You Don't Know Me: Part 1] Reference
Mentally placing the war's opponents in the sphere of deviance was another category error. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Net Erodes the Authority of the Press] Reference
"Patterns of deviance must be fully understood and not allowed to escalate out of control.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This is flimsy stuff and it gets even flimsier when the issue of causal deviance is debated. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
This war had a heavy medical/rehabilitative orientation in which deviance was seen as illness. From Wordnik.com. [Women And Drugs: Twenty Five Years Of Research And Policy] Reference
A causal deviance is an abnormal, though causal, relation between events or states of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
Call the middle region "sphere of legitimate debate," and the outer region "sphere of deviance.". From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Net Erodes the Authority of the Press] Reference
That is a 1/1000 deviance what one 'would' expect from a computer, a very strong indicator of computer fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Pressure Grows On Bloomberg: Make Up Your Mind, Already!] Reference
Did he quash, through manipulation or intimidation any deviance from his norms which his children may have shown?. From Wordnik.com. [Stop the Abuse. Stop the Lies. Stop the Intrusion. Stop the Domination. Stop the Manipulations. Let the Iraqis be free.] Reference
It maximises efficiency and simplifies matters alot, although it does stifle creativity and discourage positive deviance. From Wordnik.com. [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference
But Noppawan was as dissatisfied with this platonic aberration, if not deviance, as she had been with all earlier affairs. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. From Wordnik.com. [Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead] Reference
Maybe he should submit all records reflecting discussions and considerations that justify his downward deviance to Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Crier: Now Who's The Activist?] Reference
So they were trying to treat this guy, and they were trying to stay on top of his deviance, but it was escalating, nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008] Reference
Satyam's rivals could benefit as the customers seek other options, although the company's deviance could taint the whole industry. From Wordnik.com. [Satyam Scandal Shocks IT Sector] Reference
So far, nothing in Obama's line-up of foreign policy and national security mandarins suggests this kind of potential policy deviance. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Fraser: Beyond the Bailout State] Reference
What is in question is not their deviance from the majority, but the majority's deviance from its own principles of liberty and equality. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Michaelson: The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March] Reference
You have to make the world see how the person deviates fron those ideals and not wallow in the nuck and mire of their deviance from those ideals. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: I Take Hillary "At Her Word" About Drug Comments] Reference
These babies were in for "a life of certain suffering, of probable deviance, of permanent inferiority," according to columnist Charles Krauthammer. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Jim McDermott: Some Suprising News About "Crack Babies"] Reference
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