Research Paper on:
Examination of Deviance

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out that it is often considerably more difficult to remain upon a straight and narrow path with the myriad obstacles that appear in daily life. It can readily be  argued that deviant behavior has found its niche within contemporary society, even to the point of infiltrating what is considered to be a standard of normalcy. Bibliography lists 10  sources. TLCdvanc.rtf DEVIANCE by (c) December 2001 paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION To  stray from the norm is to deviate from socially acceptable behavior; when one is deviant, he goes against the very essence of what society has deemed acceptable. One of  the easiest things in life is to deviate from what is considered by the masses to be normal; in fact, Morpheus points out that it is often considerably more difficult  to remain upon a straight and narrow path with the myriad obstacles that appear in daily life. The student can readily argue that deviant behavior has found its niche  within contemporary society, even to the point of infiltrating what is considered to be a standard of normalcy. II. INDIVIDUALISM To be  unique within a world of sameness is a quest sought by many people; however, it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish, deviant and  intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation of individualism - which is to maintain an independence from the norm - has cast an even darker meaning upon striving  to achieve ones own distinctiveness. "This collapse into condemnation happens because the vocabulary of individualism sounds harsh to ears becoming accustomed to the competing moral attitudes found in such