This page is a digital companion to the Tripwire podcast, episode 5. The goal is to allow listeners to take in the audio story while viewing images, videos and maps of the places, people and ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

We’ve all seen it: A deviant behavior is repeated, without catastrophic results, and eventually becomes the accepted social norm for the organization. This process is called the “normalization of ...