The word "deviance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe behavior or actions that are considered to be outside of the accepted social norms. For example, "John's deviance from the expected dress code was shocking to his co-workers."
Interspersed with the condemnations of homosexual deviance were jivey musical interludes, dance performance and songs by school choirs.
Not a nanosecond of loneliness or feeling of deviance for being alone.
It is no longer an act of flirty deviance to be monetised; it is merely normalised.
A study in 2000 found increased rates of deviance and conflict on polar and space missions during the period.
When the army took over in 1980, it crushed "deviance": transvestites were jailed, and a trans-sexual singer, Bulent Ersoy, tried to kill herself after failing to be recognised as a woman.Today Ms Ersoy carries a pink identity card issued to women.
And maybe some of those people come to think that the explanation for America's deviance is that its road has been easier or that, and this is seductive, that its engine just has more horsepower.
It is considered, variously, a cleansing ritual, a female rite of passage, a guarantor of chastity, a boost to fertility or to male sexual pleasure, and a cure for "sexual deviance".
The risks of such deviance were high, but so too were the risks of allowing pupils to do badly.
But a century or so ago it was a mark of deviance for an English gentleman to admit the desirability of living anywhere other than England.
Dr Bering thus proposes that belief in such beings would prevent what he called "dangerous risk miscalculations" that would lead to social deviance and reduced fitness.One of the experiments he did to test this idea was to subject a bunch of undergraduates to a quiz.
Various types of social control inhibit deviance.
