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Societies are compelled to find ways to normalize belief and behavior and to define that which is acceptable or unacceptable to most who live in a group, community or nation. In more cases than we can count, there have been societies that have found horrific actions and behavior to be the norm, acceptable and even a required process.
Defining behavior as deviant: A global problem and conflict.
Attempting to stone an American woman for false claims of adultery would more likely result in the deaths of the men who attempt to do the stoning. In other countries, the whole neighborhood may readily join in on the stoning, if only out of fear of being sanctioned for not participating. In this sense, stoning serves as a major example of how one society will normalize a behavior, defining it as street level justice, while another society will prohibit that behavior, defining it as murder.
The laws and structures of one society can be viewed as extremely deviant when a person moves into another society. With the exponential increases in world migration, movement and settlement, there will be more of conflict that is based on people’s ideas about bringing what they consider to be normal and acceptable conduct into other national and community setts.
Religious, personal experience or lifestyle behaviors that are different from the norms of a community: