Questions about Leopards and Spots: Evaluating Deviance against a Backdrop of Threats to Collective Success
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The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect. Their vanity is stronger than their misery (Don Fabrizio, head of the Salina family) Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. D'you understand? (Tancredi, nephew of Don Fabrizio)
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Rebels in Groups : Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication date | 8 May 2012 |
| Pages | 93-116 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405196857 |
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| Publication status | Published - 8 May 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
- 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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