Normalization of deviance in aviation occurs when pilots and CFIs repeatedly deviate from accepted safety standards, rationalizing these deviations until they become the norm, increasing the risk of ...

A study by researchers at Texas Tech University found a link between the number of more tattoos a person has and the amount of "deviance" they were involved in. But that isn't the whole story. A ...

A new study I completed at the Columbia University J-school says there is a strong relationship between the “social deviance” of the event or topic in a headline and the number of retweets it gets on ...

Organizations typically strive to establish an atmosphere of conformity and teamwork to achieve maximum productivity and create a healthy corporate culture. In organizations of any size, deviant ...

I recently attended a talk by Charlie Precourt, a 2012 inductee of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, and a pilot on four space shuttle flights. The topic was “Normalcy of Deviance”, a phrase he ...

Can one view deviance as a developmental process in which one type of deviant act leads to another? This paper proposes a number of criteria that would need to be met if there is such a process and ...

Colin Sumner has declared that the sociology of deviance as a research specialty was "dead" by 1975; later influential studies on norm-violating behavior appeared only in the specific area of ...

In The Power of Positive Deviance, authors Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin take their readers on a fascinating tour to learn about “positive deviance”—an approach to solving social ...

Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business School at Oxford University and coauthor of “The Power of Positive Deviance.” Featured Guest: Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business ...