The relativistic approach argues instead that society is a diversity of values not a consensus, as societies are just too complex for their to be a clear set of shared values. Sociologists from this perspective point to the conflicts of interests and diversity of beliefs and values that helped characterize modern society. The relaivistic approach to deviance therefore suggests that there are different sets of competing values that coexist and are constantly in a state of change, jockeying for the position to become the more socially valued, values of society. So the values of society are to be understood less in terms of consensus of fundamentalist beliefs and values and much more as the outcome of some sort of dynamic process whereby some values are adopted by society at the cost of other values.
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