Improper Behavior
Imperative for Civilization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147494 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth Janeway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-177 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb00858.x |
| OpenAlex | W2085287989 |
| Language | EN |
The power to define roles and relationships, assign priorities and prescribe behavior is the technique for government which most readily legitimizes authority. Improper behavior challenge and Establishment before conceptual ideologies appear as alternative charts for a social world. Though deviance may result from personal causes, large-scale popular disaffection is socially meaningful. Feminist activism indicates strains in the entire social fabric resulting from long-term economic and cultural shifts. Defining such social movements as important only to their immediate proponents is a political tactic for division
Civilization · Deviance (statistics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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