Kia Orana and Welcome to our website! The Cook Islands Meteorological Service is a division of the Ministry of Transport. It is dedicated in providing you with the latest weather updates, forecasts and warnings for the Cook Islands. Since that first rainfall observation in 1899 in Rarotonga, more observations are now made so as to guide us to see what will happen tomorrow.
Definition of disallow. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 : to deny the force, truth, or validity of. 3  2 : to refuse to allow.
Deviance as norm-violating behavior. In its definition of deviance, the normative perspective offers sociologists a straightforward formula for reducing the bewildering diversity of deviant phenomena to a common denominator. The concept of norm violation appears to be a simple, objective criterion for determining what is deviant and what is not. The normative definition of deviance is especially appealing to many sociologists because it is based on one of the most familiar terms in their scientific vocabulary, social norms.