Organisational Deviance.

1. By
Annastasia Oraegbunem
LHAE1040−Week 8; (March 2nd 2016) Reading:
Fox, C., & Harding, D., J. (2005): “School Shootings as
Organizational Deviance.” Sociology of Education,
Vol. 78: 69–97

2. Organizational
Deviance
The state of differing from
the accepted institutional
standards− violating social
norms; the cultural products
(worth, tradition and
customs). The informal basic
knowledge that governs a
persons attitude in the
society.

4. Education system are tightly coupled; having a bureaucratic structure
whilst controlling who belongs in a particular learning track—Thus,
decisions are generally made through application of procedures and
rules from the hierarchical order.
Organizational Bureaucratic Structure Organizational Process

5. “
”
Teaching activities are loosely coupled since teachers have a great deal of
autonomy in their classrooms. To some extent, the school District boards
or statewide standardized curricula and teaching materials leave teachers
with practicing autonomy. Thus, the administrators’ delegate nonteaching
duties, and assigning teachers their task gives them further control over
teachers’ work.
Ingersoll (2003),
School structure and process are characterized by a centralized control through it’s
bureaucratic rules and procedures−Every day's teachers instructional and disciplinary
practices in the classroom creates gap between the policy and the implementation which makes
the school system loosely coupled. Thus, this is prone to the organizational deviance where
students issues are sometimes unnoticed until it reaches a destructive stage because of its
uninterrupted nature of the organizational function. Example: School shooting.

6. Structure of the school system; hierarchy and division of labour as example of
an organisational deviance. Schools have access to students' health, academic
achievements, socialising with peers and family details but these information’s
are passed to actors that are playing the lead roles in system.

7. Group Discussions: In a group; Men for the
Educators and Women for the Society.
• EDUCATORS
• Outline two personal
approaches to identify an
individual (students) who is
severely depressed and what are
you immediate precautions to
stop violence
• SOCIETY
• As a Family and or Community,
what are your commitments
towards a safety environment

9. Teachers / Employers could cause students /
workers to be depressed and could lead them into
violence.

10. In sum, from my observation I would suggest that everybody
needs to join hand to stop violence in our society by doing as
little as possible. You could discourage drugs abuse, bullying,
encourage and promote students/individual comfort at all time.