The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined ...

Twenty-eight degrees was well below the 58 degree-certified temperature for the O-rings. However, since nothing bad had happened by compromising this standard with previous launches, this became the ...

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, an ...