Deviance: Nuts, Sluts And Perverts By Alexander Liazos

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In the article, “The Property of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts and Perverts,” Alexander Liazos focuses on two major issues that deal with deviance and other is changes on climate. The three examples that where provide shows a outline of deviance where the “ fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards”. Basically the idea behind the whole example was not taken into consideration, like out of all of the countries US was one that did not agree on the agreement. Which basically makes it sound like US was against it, but there could been reasons why US did not want to be part of it. This example relating it to the government or lobbyist, whoever, there isn't information providing saying reason why. Just providing a number

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