DEVIANT


Meaning of DEVIANT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

Moral entrepreneurs engage in the process of establishing moral rules by attempting to define certain actions or forms of behaviour as deviant .

However, and to complicate the issue, it does not necessarily follow that all crime is always viewed as deviant .

You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant - crime committed in self-defence, for example.

■ NOUN

behaviour

Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing some one for deviant behaviour of any kind.

Similarly, becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal.

Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.

The deviant is the one to whom that label has been successfully applied; deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label.

We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use.

case

Second, the deviant cases whose level of democracy is unexpected for 1 993 may be temporary exceptions to the overall pattern.

Given all this, the deviant cases require explanation.

The explanation must leave room for deviant cases , for their existence is undeniable.

In the final section an analysis of the fifteen deviant cases is undertaken.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

deviant sexual behavior

Certain practices that once were condemned as deviant are now considered fairly normal.

The magazine shows people engaging in deviant sexual acts.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As in the Victorian prisons and asylums, the retention of personal sanity required some deviant dodges.

However, there were clear differences in expectations of deviant pupils.

Resistance to control makes Nicky a problem, a deviant , a troublemaker.

Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.

The normal justification thesis allows for deviant reasons.

There are many other deviant roles whose scripts exclude women.

Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself, we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts.

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