deviance
Example Sentences
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Risky decisions can became routine at any workplace, she suggests, labeling this effect the “normalization of deviance.”
Ultimately, the Age of Trump represents the normalization of deviance and a permission function for the worst of human behavior.
From Salon
“We have known for decades that addiction is a medical condition—a treatable brain disorder—not a character flaw or a form of social deviance,” she wrote.
From Scientific American
That is one of the processes by which political deviance takes hold and becomes normalized, even irreversible.
From Salon
The difference, performers note, is that opponents of drag see sexual deviance in the cross-dressing aspect.
From Seattle Times
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