TY - CHAP
T1 - Questions about Leopards and Spots
T2 - Evaluating Deviance against a Backdrop of Threats to Collective Success
AU - Morton, Thomas A.
PY - 2012/5/8
Y1 - 2012/5/8
N2 - 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)
AB - 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)
KW - Alternative meanings of deviance
KW - Concept of deviance, unpacking - and multiple connotations
KW - Deviance in groups - questions about leopards and spots, deviance against backdrop of threats to collective success
KW - Deviant group members - doing more within groups than simply serving as targets of criticism
KW - Evaluating deviants - strategic considerations and openness to change
KW - Idea that contextual factors - relating to questions of power
KW - Meaning of deviance within groups
KW - Outgroup members, transgressing 'our' norms - departing from general social standards
KW - SIDE perspective - framework for research
KW - Tancredi in the leopard, if groups did not change - risk of disappearing from political landscape
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886567128&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781444390841.ch6
DO - 10.1002/9781444390841.ch6
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84886567128
SN - 9781405196857
SP - 93
EP - 116
BT - Rebels in Groups
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -