This is not going to be a popular post. It's bound to ruffle some feathers. I'll start by stating that it's an opinion and a theory -- a strong one, but a theory nonetheless. My theory is that the ...

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 ...