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Deviance Is Relative

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Whether an act is deviant depends on the society, the setting, and the moment, because the norm supplying the judgment varies across all three.

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The same act is unremarkable at home, deviant at work, and criminal in a third country.

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Relativity of definition is not relativity of consequence — the sanction is real either way.