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Showing 1 to 20 of 311 for “"Deviance"”.
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Trickle-In Effects: How Customer Deviance Behavior Influences Employee Deviance Behavior
… customers' interpersonal and organizational deviance behavior will trickle-in through organizational boundary to influence a frontline employee's interpersonal and organizational deviance behavior. Specifically, I propose customers' interpersonal and organizational deviance behavior will …
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Gender, deviance and exclusion
This study investigated why boys were more likely to be excluded than girls. The main research site was an 11-16 comprehensive in a market town, although findings were triangulated through a project in a feeder junior school. The research evolved in two phases. Phase One involved 67 loosely …
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Social origins of scientific deviance.
… This project reframes the issue as one of social deviance from the consensus of scientific communities. Using young-earth creationism and global warming skepticism as case studies, I introduce consensus perception to the study of scientific deviance and explore its utility. Having an improper …
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TOWARD A THEORY OF POSITIVE DEVIANCE
… of theoretical or empirical analysis of positive deviance. This dissertation attempts to theoretically analyze the concept of positive deviance.</p><p>The literature related to positive deviance was examined and categorized. Positive deviance was defined as behavior that people label (i.e., …
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DEAL OR NO DEAL: REDUCING PRODUCTION DEVIANCE
Production deviance, a form of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), refers to such behaviors as leaving early, procrastinating, and wasting resources. It costs organizations billions of dollars annually (Bennett & Robinson, 2000). I apply conservation of resources and social exchange theories to …
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Whistleblowing: Understanding the Reporting of Workplace Deviance
Researchers have long studied the precursors to the reporting of deviant workplace acts. Previous research has often relied on descriptive studies utilizing survey research and/or simplistic models with one or two narrowly defined antecedents and demographic proxy variables. Results of these …
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Religious Deviance in the Elizabethan Diocese of Durham
Siiri Tenno Religious Deviance in the Elizabethan Diocese of Durham Abstract This study explores the subject of religious deviance in its multiple forms in the Elizabethan diocese of Durham. Based on the information from the deposition books of Durham Consistory Court, dating from 1565 until the …
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Strategies and Behaviors of Cyber Deviance and Internet Trolling
… research of strategies and behaviors of cyber deviance examined in this work creates a foundation for future examinations of trolling behavior. While this study inspects the strategies, future studies look to reveal the goals of trolls. Although trolling may be considered deviant, it has become …
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Women, sexuality, and social control: A study in deviance
… from which to evaluate the major traditions of deviance theory.
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Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage
This thesis is an examination of the multivalent category of sodomy in late medieval works of and about biblical drama: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, the York Joseph's Trouble About Mary and the N-Town Passion plays. Because the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge invokes charges of sodomy in its attack …
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Deviance of syntax in oral languages and oral reading behavior
The major hypothesis of this paper is that any deviance in syntax present in oral language will be evident in oral r eading behaviour. Using Lee and Canter's Developmental i 1 Sentence Scoring technique (1971) and Y. Goodman and Burke's Reading Miscue Inventory (1972) linguistic competence was …
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The Faithful Infidel: Exploring Conformity and Deviance of Category Members
… upholding a category’s continued existence, code deviance then seems a counterintuitive strategy to pursue. Nonetheless, organizations are known to defy codes in certain instances, sometimes even pairing the violation simultaneously with conformity to other codes. On top of this, organizations …
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Accounts and sexual deviance in cyberspace: the case of pedophilia
… who use the Internet account for their deviance?” There were four ancillary objectives to this analysis: (1) to ascertain the degree to which pedophiles who participate in this newsgroup provide validation to, and seek validation from, other users; (2) to investigate the extent to which …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
Both elite deviance, committed by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in …
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THE MECHANICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE: CLANDESTINE ROUTINES IN THE ODEBRECHT CASE
… an instance of institutionalized organizational deviance. Whereas much of the existing literature focuses on the drivers of organizational misconduct or on the allocation of responsibility for wrongdoing, this study shifts attention to the mechanics of execution. It analyzes the workings of the …
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Determining Deviance: An Examination of Stress and Antisocial Coping among College Undergraduates
Stress and strain impact our ability to achieve success in the goals we set. To understand the stress process better, this study uses a survey of undergraduates in order to 1) identify types of stressful experiences, 2) understand the mediating role of negative emotions, 3) evaluate how stress and …
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Deviance in the Workplace as a Function of Organizational Climate and Personality
Interpersonal deviance poses a problem for organizations, as it inflates organizational costs and negatively impacts efficiency and employee well-being. In an attempt to understand this behavior, I explored the role of unfavorable discrimination climate as an antecedent of interpersonal deviance. …
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The Price Of Deviance: Social Norms And Access To Job Search Assistance
… who violate social norms. I then test whether deviance decreases the likelihood of receiving assistance on sample of male job changers, and find that job seekers pay a price for deviant behavior. This demonstrates the importance of social norms in explaining assistance flows, illustrates the …
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