Examples of "Deviant Behavior"

I agree with Weijia that contexts in which individuals' actions occur plays into whether it is defined as deviant or non-deviant. I would like to extend this, and suggest that all five types of individual adoption of cultural goals and institutionalized means can either play a positive and/or a negative role in society. Religious/spiritual beliefs seems to be a concept in which conformity is highly internalized due to the prominence of it from the very beginning of individuals' lives. Buddhists' ways of life, tend to be so internalized into the minds of its believers, that since everyone is doing it the conflict between those who are deviant and those who are not are kept to a minimal. However, other religious extremists groups, tend to have the same goals, yet with the small change of institutional means leads to the type transforming in to rebellion. The stress between the two different institutional means, leads to heightened conflict, of which is the "right" way too achieve the goals. This, unfortunately is what leads to many terrorist crimes, in which terror and force is use to change the current acceptable institutional means to the more "deviant" method. In this sense, I find conformity and rebellion to be highly relatable in the context of spiritual and religious beliefs.