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Lutz, Frank W. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1986
Loosely coupled educational organizations exhibit structural similarities to preliterate societies in their lack of formal leadership and control. The identification of social outsiders as "witches" to explain disasters affecting preliterate societies may have its counterpart in educational organizations when nonconformists are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Conformity, Educational Anthropology, Ethnography