adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Moral entrepreneurs engage in the process of establishing moral rules by attempting to define certain actions or forms of behaviour as deviant .
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However, and to complicate the issue, it does not necessarily follow that all crime is always viewed as deviant .
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You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant - crime committed in self-defence, for example.
■ NOUN
behaviour
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Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing some one for deviant behaviour of any kind.
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Similarly, becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal.
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Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.
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The deviant is the one to whom that label has been successfully applied; deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label.
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We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use.
case
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Second, the deviant cases whose level of democracy is unexpected for 1 993 may be temporary exceptions to the overall pattern.
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Given all this, the deviant cases require explanation.
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The explanation must leave room for deviant cases , for their existence is undeniable.
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In the final section an analysis of the fifteen deviant cases is undertaken.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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deviant sexual behavior
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Certain practices that once were condemned as deviant are now considered fairly normal.
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The magazine shows people engaging in deviant sexual acts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in the Victorian prisons and asylums, the retention of personal sanity required some deviant dodges.
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However, there were clear differences in expectations of deviant pupils.
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Resistance to control makes Nicky a problem, a deviant , a troublemaker.
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Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.
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The normal justification thesis allows for deviant reasons.
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There are many other deviant roles whose scripts exclude women.
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Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself, we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts.