Postmodernity and Deviations

Abstract

The article analyzes the process which makes deviant behavior possible and the process in which deviance is, from a certain point, perceived as the norm. The key argument is that these processes are in a way a mirror image of one another, but more importantly - are subject to the same phenomenon: the increased variability of the habitus, which comes into existence to overcome the mismatch between the objective structures of the social reality and the internalized structuring structures.