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Economic deviance (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate )
Author(s) -
Carrier James G.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12139
Subject(s) - deviance (statistics) , sociology , positive deviance , criminology , positive economics , social psychology , psychology , economics , computer science , machine learning
Making sense of what went wrong during the recent financial crises requires us to go beyond the conventional view of deviance. We need a more systematic and social view of financial deviance, and have long had the intellectual tools to do so. They include Durkheim and Merton's work, invoked here to pose pertinent questions about the deviant behaviour of corporations and institutions.