8 Deviant behaviors at work
Defining deviance: theories behind the concept
Arriving at the concept of deviance through norms
Defining deviance needs to start from the concept of norm. People need other people for the continuity of their lives, and this leads them to form and share a particular social environment. If there are no norms that determine the appropriate behaviors in any environment, then bringing up and discussing deviance will be meaningless and predicting the limits and direction of behavior will not be possible. Forming and continuing social relationships smoothly can only be possible with a set of rules, and these rules that people need are called norms ...
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