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| Living in our heads the apparently more exciting or interesting lives of others - or by investigating them and discovering that our own lives are preferable |
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| Reform as a research motivation dangers |
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1) It sometimes outruns our tested knowledge.
2) Understanding means excusing often interferes when reform is motivation 3) Ignores that many kinds of deviance are not as harmful as they are made out to be. |
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| Very important reason for studying deviance |
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| 1) Pure disinterested curiosity |
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| Purely objective definition |
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| 1) Points to empirical features of the subject, to what is physically present and can be seen, hard, and measured. No moralistic or emotional evaluations. |
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| Main problem with objective approaches to deviance |
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| 1) The actual assignment of deviance labels by society is NEVER purely objective. |
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| Useful definitions of deviance are |
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| In statistical deviance, it is often equated with |
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| 1) deviance from a common centre (normal distribution) |
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| 1) Occurs when deviance has a negative effect on the way that a particular system works. |
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| 1) Threaten the working of the system but also undermined things that made the medieval world meaningful. Contribute to chaos & disorder. |
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| Normative definition of deviance |
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| 1) normative standard that governs the behaviour. |
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| 1) If a particular behaviour typically elicits criticism or punishment, it is deviant in the eyes of those who respond this way. |
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| 1) When we do not want others to be deviant, or when the meaning of their behaviour frightens us, we may attempt to normalize what we see. If a person or group is already unpopular, the connection between odd behaviour and punitive, demaning response may be made more quickly. |
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