Assignment task: Many people have learned to think about deviance in absolutist terms: norms represent unchanging ideals, deviance occurs when norms are violated, and those who violate norms must be punished to preserve ideals and the society that is based on them. This is a clear and unambiguous way of thinking about deviance, but people who think about deviance in constructionist terms say that it distorts reality and prevents us from dealing realistically with deviance in society. Using sports as a focus, explain a constructionist approach to deviance and how it helps to see deviance in realistic terms.