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So in order to protect their positive self-regard, individuals are motivated to avoid deviating from the normative behavior. [ 1 ] On the other side of the dual-motivational system, in a reference group where a behavior deviating from the norm is desirable but not required of its members, members of the group would regard the deviant act as an ...
Although deviance may have a negative connotation, the violation of social norms is not always a negative action; positive deviation exists in some situations. Although a norm is violated, a behavior can still be classified as positive or acceptable. [4] Social norms differ throughout society and between cultures.
Normalization of deviance, according to American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes culturally normalized.
The concept of normalization can be found in the work of Michel Foucault, especially Discipline and Punish, in the context of his account of disciplinary power.As Foucault used the term, normalization involved the construction of an idealized norm of conduct – for example, the way a proper soldier ideally should stand, march, present arms, and so on, as defined in minute detail – and then ...
A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [1] ... no one actor has any positive incentive in individually deviating from a certain action ...
Tasimi, Dominguez & Wynn (2015) offered the idea that do-gooder derogation could be put down to do-gooders deviating from the social norm. [ 12 ] In a public goods game, where there was a punishment condition introduced, participants tended to punish anyone who cooperated more or less than the social norm: the low contributors, but also the ...
Norm Theory suggests that people compare reality to its alternatives, and exceptional events more readily evoke counterfactual thinking (imagining "what could have been") than routine events. Consequently, outcomes resulting from exceptional behavior are perceived as more avoidable, leading to stronger emotional responses such as regret or blame.
For example, one of the four D's of abnormal behavior is deviance, meaning that the behavior observed is not in alignment with what is the social or cultural norm. [17] This may not imply that the behavior is dysfunctional or undesirable, however--it may simply mean that what is being observed is statistically deviant in a social or cultural ...