Deviance is closely related to the social structure and culture from which it emerges as a social phenomenon. The social bases of deviance could be listed as follows:

• Deviance varies depending on cultural norms. No thought or behavior is deviant by itself, but they become deviant in terms of their relation to certain norms.
• People become deviant because the others qualify them as such.
• The definition of norms and violations of rules by societies involves social power.