Deviance as Resistance

…through a focus on “deviant” practice we are witness to the power of those at the bottom, whose everyday life decisions challenge, or at least counter, the basic normative assumptions of a society intent on protecting structural and social inequalities under the guise of some normal and natural order to life.⁠

Cohen, Cathy J. "Deviance as resistance: A new research agenda for the study of black politics." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 1, no. 1 (2004): 27-45.