SOC 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4 Part I: Deviant Behavior: Nimby, Socioeconomic Status
27 Mar 2020
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Reflexivity: seeing oneself as others see you: when we interact socially with others we tend to analyze how we appear to them comma and assess the presumed evaluations of that image. From this assessment we adjust our behavior accordingly on the basis of what reaction we would like (1) shame is causally linked to how we picture others seeing us. Shame has the potential of being harmful when individuals are subject to ridicule and insult: poverty often result in ridicule and insult comma and thus shame. Especially when it takes the form of unemployment, homelessness or welfare. Such outcomes don"t only cause behaviors we regard as deviant, they are themselves manifestations of deviance. Poverty is the result of structural conditions over which people have no control, even the poor: but many believe that it is fair and just to blame the poor for being impoverished.
