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Improper Behavior: Imperative for Civilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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