Today, using the wrong fork to eat a salad at a dinner party would not usually qualify as deviance. Why not?
A) American society no longer has rules and etiquette governing which utensil to use for salads.
B) That sort of norm violation is seen as an intentional rebellion against convention.
C) Most dinners are eaten with friends, who don't apply sanctions for deviant behavior.
D) There aren't norms governing food and eating.
E) It is not a serious enough norm violation to provoke sanctions.

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Eating with the wrong fork for a salad is not a serious enough norm violation to provoke sanctions. The level of severity for the norm violation is too low to be considered deviance.

Today, Using the Wrong Fork to Eat a Salad at a Dinner