If we can locate groups peculiarly subject to such pressures,
we should expect to find fairly high rates of deviant behavior in these
groups, not because the human beings comprising them are compounded of
distinctive biological tendencies but because they are responding normally
to the social situation in which they find themselves. Our perspective
is sociological. We look at variations in rates of deviant behavior,
not at its incidence. Should our quest be at all successful, some
forms of deviant behavior will be found to be as psychologically normal
as conforming behavior, and the equation of deviation and psychological
abnormality will be put in question (1968, p. 186).