SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Substance Abuse, Control Theory
12 Mar 2015
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Control theory will be on the final (which is cumulative!!) Today: vocabularies of motive: wright mills and vocabulary of motive. He was (and still is) very important figure in english-speaking sociology. Coined the question why do good" people do bad" things? . After someone engages in a deviant act, they are responsible for that action. Accounts are a form of defense you protect yourself against charges of misconduct through the use of accounts. **they are not thought out or used before the deviant act, they only occur after the act*: the before" thought is the next set of theorists. As a form of defense lyman and scott say that mental accounting" often has to occur afterwards like easing their guilt in doing something they know is deviant. 2 distinct forms of accounts: excuses: i know it was wrong, but , justifications: it wasn"t wrong, because .
