Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism
1 Oct 2018
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The vicarious experience - that is, living the apparently more exciting or interesting lives of others - or by investigating them and discovering that our own lives are preferable a. Not a good reason for research, because it focuses on the extremes. We need to understand the behaviours before implementing programs. Ignores the fact that some forms of deviance are not as bad as some people would like us to think. Reform as a research motivation has its own dangers i. ii. iii. The belief that understanding means excusing often interferes when reform is the motivation. Reform impulse also ignores the fact that many kinds of deviance are not as harmful are they are made out to be. Knowing and understanding deviance as a way to feel safer. People enjoy a deviant image , even if its only for a night. Learning why people do the things that they do, helps us understand our self.
