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Write short note: Conformity and deviance.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Sociological Thinkers

Conformity is behaviour that follows the norms of a group or society; deviance is behaviour that departs from them and draws disapproval or sanction. Sociology treats both as products of social life, not of individual nature: the same norms that produce conformity also define, and even require, deviance.

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  • Conformity: why people comply
  • Deviance: how sociology explains it
  • Relativity and the link between the two
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