SOCY 1004 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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Disclaimers (hewitt & stokes): prospective in nature they are designed to precede the deviant acts that people saw as imminent in their future. People hedge by prefacing their remarks to indicate a measure of uncertainty about what they are doing. I"m not sure this is a good idea, but . They use credentialing when they know their act may be discredited. I am not prejudiced against _____, some of my best friends are _____. They invoke sin licenses when they know that their behavior will be viewed as deviant but they want to suggest that this is a time in which normal rules do not apply. Normally, i would never do this, but . Cognitive disclaimers try to makes sense of, or normalize something that looks like it may not be well understood. This may seem strange to you, but .
