When bad practices are allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, they could lead to bad outcomes as the deviance becomes the norm, causing a downward spiral of deviations and an increased ...

Normalization of deviance occurs when substandard practices become accepted as the norm, usually because they go unchallenged or are rationalized as necessary compromises. In the fire service ...

Ultimately, informal social deviance will always exist ... and good manners become the norm rather than the exception. And with that, we conclude this discussion. Next week, we’re starting ...

Darden Business School Professor Laura Morgan Roberts cites Ms. Burns as a prime example of positive deviance. She deviated from the norm and that worked to her advantage. Normally, of course ...

A sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on matters as diverse as deviance, art making and marijuana use. He found a particular following in France. By Elsa Dixler Howard S. Becker ...