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 ...

In other words, if a certain cultural norm shifts, the meaning of deviance from it will change as well. This prediction has also found support in the literature. For example, as living alone has ...