In order to decide whether a specific act is deviant, it is necessary to know:

a. exactly what primary socializers taught the deviant

b. how many people commit the same act

c. the social context of the act

d. how state law defined deviance

e. the duration of the act

Answer: option (C). The social context of the act.

Explanation: Deciding whether an act is deviant or not depends on society definition of that act. deviance is a product of social processes, it is not an intrinsic attribute of human, nor of the act themselves. The norms themselves, or the social contexts that determine which acts are deviants or not, are continually defined and redefined through ongoing social processes-legal, political, cultural etc. Certain activities or people come to be understood and defined as deviant is through the intervention of moral entrepreneurs.