Deviance

Deviance may refer to:

  • Deviance (sociology), actions or behaviors that violate social norms
  • Deviance (statistics), a quality of fit statistic for a model
  • Paraphilia, historically referred to as sexual deviance
  • DJ Deviance

Famous quotes containing the word deviance:

    Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them.
    Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)