By Punishing Deviants, the Group Expresses Collective Indignation and Reaffirms

Multiple Choice

By punishing deviants, the group expresses collective indignation and reaffirms its commitments to the rules. This illustrates which of the five important principles of deviance described in the chapter?

A) Deviance is socially constructed.
B) Deviance is relative, not absolute.
C) The majority determines who and what is deviant.
D) Deviance is an integral part of all societies.