Deviance Theory Analysis: Identifying Deviance for Situations and Explaining It Within a given society, individuals are expected to behave and/or behave in a given acceptable way. However, there are cases in which particular individuals act contrary to established standards and violate cultural norms. Such acts may include acts of criminality, theft, defiance, violation of rules, and truancy, to name a few. Deviance could therefore be seen as the intentional or accidental violation of particular aspects of behavior and the ways in which people are expected to act within a society (Hardy). When an individual breaks social rules of conduct, he is said to be engaging in deviant behavior. . However, due to the dynamism of societies, what may be considered a deviant act in one society may be considered normal in another society. This raises the issue that deviance can be seen as relative to both time and place with regards to differences in societies. Under this understanding, deviance is viewed as the violation of social norms resulting from any act, thought, or attitude that a particular society considers to be a violation of its values ​​or rules (Long Russ). Deviant conduct is contrary to the definitions of good and bad conduct agreed upon by members of a social system. Such behaviors go in a denied direction and have a magnitude sufficient to exceed the limit of acceptance and adaptation of the particular community. Various sociological theories have been advanced in describing deviant behaviors. They include: cultural transmission/differential association theory; control theory; labeling theory; structural deformation theory/anomia theory; subcultural theories; and medicalization of deviance (Sociologist...... middle of document ......ted WorksBlumer, Herbert. Society as Symbolic Interaction. In Arnold M. Rose. Human Behavior and Social Process: An Interactionist Approach, 1962. Houghton - Mifflin. htmlHardy, CL, Contributor to eHow Social Deviance Theory 199-2011 Available at: http://www.ehow.com/about_5413178_social-deviance-theory.htmlLong Russ /rlong/intro/deviance.htmSociological Theories to Explain Deviance Available at:http://www.valdosta.edu/~klowney/devtheories.htmStark, Rodney: Biological Theories of Deviance. Tenth Edition 2007. Pp.182- 185.Belmont, CA