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  2. Deviance (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Although deviance may have a negative connotation, the violation of social norms is not always a negative action; positive deviation exists in some situations. Although a norm is violated, a behavior can still be classified as positive or acceptable. [4] Social norms differ throughout society and between cultures.

  3. Agitation - Wikipedia

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    Agitation may refer to: . Agitation (action), putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing An emotional state of excitement or restlessness . Psychomotor agitation, an extreme form of the above, which can be part of a mental illness or a side effect of anti-psychotic medication

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    Have a go – to try to achieve something, as in "have a bash at this crossword" to strike physically to attack verbally a party or celebration "they're having a little bash this weekend" (orig. US, but now probably more common in UK than US) bath (pl.) swimming pool (v.) to bathe, or give a bath to, example have a bath (US: take a bath meaning ...

  5. Foregrounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, the last line of a poem with a consistent metre may be foregrounded by changing the number of syllables it contains. This would be an example of a deviation from a secondary norm. In the following poem by E. E. Cummings, [16] there are two types of deviation: light's lives lurch a once world quickly from rises army the gradual of ...

  6. Collocational restriction - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic morphology, collocational restriction is the way some words have special meanings in specific two-word phrases. For example the adjective "dry" only means "not sweet" in combination with the noun "wine". Such phrases are often considered idiomatic.

  7. Workplace deviance - Wikipedia

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    The relationships employees have with their organization are crucial, as they can play an important role in the development of workplace deviance. Employees who perceive their organization or supervisor(s) as more caring (or supportive) have been shown to have a reduced incidence of workplace-deviant behaviors.

  8. Secondary deviance - Wikipedia

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    Secondary deviance is a stage in a theory of deviant identity formation. [1] Introduced by Edwin Lemert in 1951, primary deviance is engaging in the initial act of deviance, he subsequently suggested that secondary deviance is the process of a deviant identity, integrating it into conceptions of self, potentially affecting the individual long term.

  9. Perversion - Wikipedia

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    Perversion usually differs from "deviant behavior", in that the latter covers areas of behavior (such as petty crime) for which perversion would be too strong a term. It is often considered derogatory , and, in psychological literature, the term paraphilia has been used as a replacement for most forms of sexual perversion, [ 1 ] though this ...