US War Crimes or ‘Normalized Deviance’

By Nicolas J S Davies | Consortium News | August 15, 2016 Sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the term “normalization of deviance” as she was investigating the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. She used it to describe how the social culture at NASA fostered a disregard for rigorous, physics-based safety standards, effectively creating new, lower de facto standards […]

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