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Quick questions on Deviance in the HSC Society and Culture Social Conformity and Nonconformity option
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What is defining deviance?Show answer
Deviance is behaviour that breaches the significant norms of a group or society and attracts disapproval or sanction. The crucial point is that deviance is not a fixed quality of an act but a social judgement about it. The same behaviour can be deviant in one society or era and accepted in another. Deviance is therefore socially constructed: it depends on the norms in force and on who is doing the judging, not just on what is done.
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