Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Romantic Hero

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Can enrich our lives with vicarious experience living in our head it can be an indirect way of coping with the forbidden urges. > can distort our understanding of deviance . Reform three main points for reform as research motivation: our search for reform policies sometimes outruns our tested knowledge counterproductive, belief that understanding means excusing often interferes when reform is the motivation. People who want to reform deviants sometimes afraid to consider deviant perspective seriously. Think like the predator : reform impulse ignores fact that many kinds of deviance are not as harmful as they are made out to be. Something that was found deviant 10 years ago is now applauded. Ability to recognize that some deviants are not as harmful as their demonized reputations imply better to protect ourselves from real threats in our lives rather than concern ourselves of things like crime, drugs, minorities, etc.

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