Deviance may refer to: *

Deviance (sociology) Deviance or the sociology of deviance explores the actions or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores). Although deviance ...

, actions or behaviors that violate social norms *

Deviancy amplification spiral The deviancy amplification spiral and deviancy amplification are terms used by interactionist sociologists to refer to the way levels of deviance or crime can be increased by the societal reaction to deviance itself. Origin of term The process ...

, a cognitive bias (error in judgement) and a deviancy amplification term used by interactionist sociologists *

Deviance (statistics) In statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying ...

, a quality of fit statistic for a model *

Positive deviance Positive deviance (PD) is an approach to behavioral and social change. It is based on the idea that, within a community, some individuals engage in unusual behaviors allowing them to solve problems better than others who face similar challenges, des ...

, an approach to behavioral and social change * Sexual deviance (historical term) or

paraphilia A paraphilia is an experience of recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical objects, places, situations, fantasies, behaviors, or individuals. It has also been defined as a sexual interest in anything other than a legally consenting human ...

, recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical things * Deviance or

bid'ah In Islam and sharia (Islamic law), ( , ) refers to innovation in religious matters. Linguistically, as an Arabic word, the term can be defined more broadly, as "innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy". It is the subject of many hadith ...

, innovations and deviant acts or groups from orthodox Islamic law (Sharia)

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