A major advantage of this framework is that it provides a perspective that sensitizes one to a theory's basic locus of causation and motivation for deviance. This takes us into the question of why some people, but not others, commit deviant acts even though those acts will be negatively viewed by others and bring sanctions upon themselves. As I apply this framework to selected major theoretical orientations, I shall also note limitations of each theory. In addition, I shall indicate contrasting practical implications of deviance theory that have far-ranging ramifications for social life -- interconnections between our changing political orientations and individualism and structuralism in deviance theory. (Publisher abstract)