nity among a certain population in two ways--it can create a bond between those who exhibit the deviant behavior, and it creates a strong bond among those who oppose that behavior:
The deviant act, then, creates a sense of mutuality among the people of a community by supplying a focus for group feeling. Like a war, a flood, or some other emergency, deviance makes people more alert to the interests they share in common and draws attention to those values which constitute the "collective conscience" of the community (Erikson 4).
Deviance is not a specific behavior common to all cultures. Every culture may identify some behavior as deviant, but a given behavior will not be defined as deviant in all cultures:
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