Deviance

Deviance may refer to:

• Deviance (sociology), actions or behaviors that violate social norms
• Deviancy amplification spiral, a cognitive bias (error in judgement) and a deviancy amplification term used by interactionist sociologists
• Deviance (statistics), a quality of fit statistic for a model
• Positive deviance, an approach to behavioral and social change
• Sexual deviance (historical term) or paraphilia, recurring or intense sexual arousal to atypical things
• Deviance or bid'ah, innovations and deviant acts or groups from orthodox Islamic law (Sharia)

See also

• Deviant (disambiguation)
• Deviation (disambiguation)
• Discrepancy (disambiguation)
• Divergence (disambiguation)