youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. this sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

Youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. This sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. Using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

The "traditional" use of the Positive Deviance approach to behavior change involves studying children who thrive despite adversity, identifying uncommon model behaviors among Positive Deviant families, and then designing and implementing an intervention to replicate these behaviors among mothers of malnourished children. This article presents the results of a literature review designed to gathe...

To examine the nature of news content in online journalism, this study explores how online media define newsworthiness in covering news events. We examine the effect of organizations on the news concept with two types of online news sites portal news sites and the sties of traditional newspapers. The study used seven newsworthiness indicators as predictors of news content: statistical deviance,...

The current investigation examined the predictive strength of family processes (closeness, support, and monitoring) both for low self-control and for a variety of deviance measures based on data from youth in seven different cultural and national groups (N = 8,997) from Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States (nonrural high school, rural high school in the “Black Bel...

evaluating the role of organization and management in appearing deviant workplace behaviors which expose organizational norms to variation and cause a threat for the well-being of the organization and its members is an important subject. the relevant researches have categorized these behaviors to various kinds such as individual and organizational deviance, constructive and destructive deviance...

Problem behaviour theory proposes that adolescent substance use and other problem behaviours comprise a single dimension reflecting a general underlying tendency towards deviance. This general deviance hypothesis was tested with survey data obtained from 2731 adolescents from Dublin, Ireland. A series of hierarchical maximum likelihood factor analyses indicated that three specific factors were ...

This paper presents a full scaled application of induction trees for non-classificatory purposes. The grown trees are used for highlighting regional differences in the women’s labor participation, by using data from the Swiss Population Census. Hence, the focus is on their descriptive rather than predictive power. Trees grown by language regions exhibit fundamental cultural differences supporti...