ABSTRACT
The Norm Resistance Scale was used which allows a summarizing measure of deviance perception in relation to each act. Education, next in importance to religiosity in its impact upon deviance perception, was negatively correlated to deviance control and positively correlated to norm resistance of all acts in which it had a significant effect for all countries. Responses to the act of taking drugs were highly culture-specific with religiosity having a liberalizing effect in Iran and India, but a conservative effect in other countries. However, when linked with education, it was found consistently the well educated, non-religious in all countries were much more resistant to the control of taking drugs. In general, the countries most favoring control of deviance were Iran, Indonesia, and Yugoslavia, and these countries tended also to be those that had totalitarian polities and were less economically developed.
