The phrase "as deviance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing behavior that deviates from societal norms or expectations.
Example: "The study aimed to explore the concept of social behavior as deviance in various cultural contexts."
Alternatives: "as abnormal behavior" or "as deviation from norms".
(What's left unsaid is that the book's credited ghost writer, Lynn Vincent, labeled homosexuality as "deviance" in her own writings for World, the evangelical magazine).
This didactical scenario presumed opposing views on values underlying the perception of addiction (as deviance or sickness) and on the sanctions (as repressive or restitutive) executed by the society.
This gives feminists an interest in the value of "ontological heterogeneity"—using categories that permit the observation of within-group variation, and that resist the representation of difference from the group mean as deviance.
Wallis describes a process referred to as "deviance amplification", and analyzes how individuals maintain perceptions of reality within a deviant belief system.
Anschutz also spent $10,000 in 1992 to promote Colorado's Proposition 2, which let private property owners discriminate against gays and lesbians, $150,000 to the Mission America Foundation, which condemns homosexuality as "deviance," and $70,000 to the Discovery Institute, which attacks the idea of evolution and proclaims that "Darwinism is false".
The amount of variance explained by climatic variables was calculated as Deviance(model constant) - Deviance(model with covariate) / Deviace(model constant) - Deviance(model with time dependent parameter), as per [21].
All models indicated a high goodness of fit expressed by the explained deviance as well as by the pseudo-R2 by Nagelkerke [66].
Model fit was assessed by inspection of the overdispersion parameter, the model deviance as well as patterns and magnitude of the residuals.
p-values for the analysis of variance (or deviance) as well as the amount of deviance explained for each fixed-effect of mixed models were calculated with the function pamer.fnc (package LMERConvenienceFunctions). Post hoc multiple-comparison was carried out with the function glht (package multcomp; [ 48]).
For all plant species, traits, and mixed-model approaches examined, considerably different values of REML-based deviance as well as MSD were observed for the examined levels of T (Additional file 3).
Categorical diagnosis that describe psychopathological states as distinct syndromes and dimensional approaches that view psychopathology as a deviance from normal with no clear threshold between subjects with and without a disorder [29].
