Definition of «deviancy»

"Deviancy" refers to behavior or actions that deviate from what is considered normal or socially accepted in a particular society or group. It often implies that someone is behaving in a way that is considered abnormal, unusual, or outside of the expected norms.

Phrases with «deviancy»

Sentences with «deviancy»

Our results shed new light on a potential mechanism (i.e., perceptions of behavioral norms among peers) that may explain the consistently identified association between micro-time processes of deviancy training during peer interactions and the macro-time development of various problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood (e.g., Dishion, Capaldi, et al., 1995, Dishion et al., 1997; Patterson et al., 2000). (link.springer.com)
In 1834, a young woman named Rebecca Reed published Six Months in a Convent, her account of sexual deviancy at an Ursuline convent in Charleston, Massachusetts from which she claimed to have escaped. (firstthings.com)
As Patrick Moynihan observed, the left tends to handle social problems by defining deviancy down. (firstthings.com)
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