Questions about Leopards and Spots: Evaluating Deviance against a Backdrop of Threats to Collective Success

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-116

  Morton, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative meanings of deviance; Concept of deviance, unpacking and multiple connotations; Deviance in groups questions about leopards and spots, deviance against backdrop of threats to collective success; Deviant group members doing more within groups than simply serving as targets of criticism; Evaluating deviants strategic considerations and openness to change; Idea that contextual factors relating to questions of power; Meaning of deviance within groups; Outgroup members, transgressing 'our' norms departing from general social standards; SIDE perspective framework for research; Tancredi in the leopard, if groups did not change risk of disappearing from political landscape

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EID: 84886567128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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