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.
Key words: deviation, innovation,
postmodernity, habitus, normalization of deviance