SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nice Guy
22 Mar 2016
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Stanley cohen: people become concerned with events that are periodic and consequential, people are concerned with the state of morality, episodic events become a threat, consequences are exaggerated. Life can"t be changed, make the best of it: autonomy. Don"t let them push you around: trouble. Life is tough, don"t run away: excitement. Accounts: diminish responsibility, negotiate a non deviant identity (normal. Excuses: admit act was bad, deny full responsibility. Justiications: deny act was bad, accept responsibility was bad, vocabularies of motive. Excusing rape: the use of alcohol and drugs, emotional problems, nice guy image. Justifying rape: women as seductresses, women mean yes when they say no, most women eventually relax and enjoy it, nice girls don"t get raped, only a minor wrongdoing. Above excuses have all worked in court: this changed in the 1990"s. Yellow highlight on midterm dark blue title.
