deviance

Example Sentences

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Risky decisions can became routine at any workplace, she suggests, labeling this effect the “normalization of deviance.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The so-called monster — a term that, handily, can denote success and size as well as deviance — has a way of doing that.

From New York Times

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