Today, ecoterrorists in america have taken many radical actions, including burning down ski lodges, blowing up hummers, freeing lab animals, and chaining themselves to trees. these actions are often seen as extremely deviant, but many of the perpetrators believe that in the future they will be hailed as heroes, in which case their actions will be seen as: a. in-group orientation. b. positive deviance. c. symbolic deviance. d. violent crime.

Letter B is the correct answer.

Positive deviance is an approach that is also used by people involved with eco-terrorism who take extreme criminal acts to spread their environmental ideologies. These deviant people seek approval of others who share similar beliefs and ambitions regarding saving the environment, these perpetrators strongly believe that they will be seen as heroes sometime in the future.  

Today, ecoterrorists in America have taken many radical actions, including burning down ski lodges, blowing up Hummers, freeing lab animals, and chaining themselves to trees. These actions are often seen as extremely deviant, but many of the perpetrators believe that in the future they will be hailed as heroes, in which case their actions will be seen as:

the correct answer is B. positive deviance.  

Explanation:

Positive deviance is any break that can be seen as normal behavior.  It is a term used to give details account of any break in the social norm that brings about positive change.  The idea of positive deviance is to behave in a way that brings about a change within a precise area of a social norm. In essence, establish a particular problem in a society / community and identify a minority in the society that are attending to the same problem but adopt a different strategy that is aim at solving it with a positive outcome. In this case, the people are deviating from the social norm practices.  

FURTHER EXPLANATION

Positive deviance concentrates on the utmost end of the positive spectrum. It comprises  

The positive deviance process is established when a group of people in a community goes through a difficult problems and some group (the deviants) go out of their way to provide lasting solution to the problem. Although the deviants have the same resources as others to deal with the problem but often times develop a different approach in creating a solution.  

Examples of positive deviance is a group people that helps prisoners to stop smoking.  

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Example of positive deviance with technology in healthcare  :

According to the marxist explanation of deviance, the cause of deviance can be traced to  :

Providing law enforcement jobs is a positive function of deviance :

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classical republicanism, also known as civic humanism, is a form of republicanism  developed in the renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of  classical  antiquity, especially such  classical  writers as aristotle, polybius, and cicero.