Conformity vs. Deviance — What's the Difference?

Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded. Norms are implicit, specific rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others.

Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.

Similarity in form or character; agreement

One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.

Action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws

(sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.

The relationship between rock or sediment strata that were deposited adjacently or vertically in sequence without any interruption due to erosion, tilting, folding, or similar natural processes.

A person or thing that differs from the expected. en

A surface exhibiting such a relationship between older rock strata and younger rock strata.

An aberrant state or condition.

The state of things being similar or identical.

Deviate behavior.

A point of resemblance; a similarity.

A state or condition markedly different from the norm

The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.

Deviate behavior

The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.

Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; - followed by to, with, or between.

Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

Correspondence in form or appearance

Acting according to certain accepted standards

Orthodoxy in thoughts and belief

Concurrence of opinion;

Hardened conventionality