Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook drive about 26% of all traffic to online news stories according to the analytics provider Chartbeat–even more if you’re Upworthy or BuzzFeed, to the ...

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 ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...

Sexual deviance includes a range of abnormal sexual expression from fetishism, cross dressing, sexual sadomasochism to pedophilia, incest and rape at the extreme end of the continuum. “One begins to ...