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Deviance as Social Change

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Today's deviance can become tomorrow's norm, because norms change when enough people violate them and the violation is defended rather than hidden.

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Practices once punished have become unremarkable, and the reverse has happened too.

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Nothing guarantees the direction; norms tighten as readily as they loosen.