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Write short note: Role conflict as a source of deviation.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Stratification and Mobility

Deviance is behaviour that violates the norms attached to a status. Role conflict makes some deviance structurally unavoidable: when a person faces incompatible expectations, fulfilling one role means violating the norms of another. On this view much deviance is produced by social structure, not by individual pathology.

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