Deviance, in sociology, violation of social rules and conventions.
Deviance, in Ansari's universe, is cause mainly for dissociation and disavowal.
FOR a glimpse of deviance in America, look no further than the enforcement section of the Federal Communications Commission's Web site.
(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).
They had just read a book, however, by Marian Zeitlin, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University, called "Positive Deviance in Nutrition".
There's a genuine sense of deviance in his drunken celebration; while Marc Callahan's Sid deftly admonishes the villagers' prurience: "Stop prying and poking and probing at him/With your pious old faces delighting in sin".
Her son, Lev Gumilyov (1912 92), and her third husband (she was married from 1918 to 1928 to the Assyriologist Vladimir Shileiko), art historian and critic Nikolay Punin (1888 1953), were arrested for political deviance in 1935.
The theory of the firm in economics, of deviance in sociology, of communication in political science, of attitude formation in social psychology, of divergent development in cultural anthropology are all examples of theory in every proper sense of the word.
Normal as all this sounds, there are cases of hoarding that don't fall within the boundaries of the normal, and these are the subject of "The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture University of Chicagogo), by Scott Herring, a professor of English at Indiana University.
Aviv describes the use of flawed research findings from a study of patients at Butner Federal Correctional Institute, a study that was based on cases in which respondents had an incentive to lie about their behavior, and inflated their own sexual deviance in an effort to appear more open to recovery.
Biocrusts, precipitation, and January minimum temperature each account for about 3% of deviance in the data.
