SOCB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Virtual Reality, Logical Volume Management, Content Analysis
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Chapter 2: understanding and testing theories of deviance. No single theory has managed to stake out a monopoly on truth. Explanations have been described as the stories we tell each other in attempt to produce some order in our lives . One of the most important distinctions is among theories that are mainly empathetic, scientific or ideological. Includes much of the subjective (inner feeling) as well as the objective (viewed from the outside) reality of the even being explained, often seems more complete and thus more satisfying, than an exclusively objective explanation. Empathy has limits =we cannot emphasize w/ serial killing, being infected with hiv aka there are too many things we cannot empathize and feel. This approach is found mainly in the interpretive interaction theories. Treated w/ disdain from more scientific approaches who believe empathy gets in the way of being correct. Use of the scientific method or adaptations of it.