SOC446H5 Chapter 6: Ditton Chapter 6
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Chapter 6: motives: private identity preservation- getting caught and getting off. Chapter 6 looks at the salesmen"s motives and considers the effect that occasions of enforcements have on these partial" identities. Fiddling is impossible without a working part time self. If getting caught translates the part-time self into a full-time self, then fiddling would lose its crucial psychological meaning as trifling". His motives help the salesman to stay good" in difficult situations. the actual meaning of motives for the individual lies exclusively in his linguistic statement of them, whether that statement is constructed before or after the questioned act. Verbalisations are also situated; different situations have differently appropriate. The pro fession and confession of motive obviously depend on the vocabulary of motives available to the individual. Motives might also throw extra light upon the initial decision to fiddle (through such.
