Removing an Obstacle to Learning Deviance
The Perceived Difference between "Us" and "Them
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph E Jacoby (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1318416 |
| OpenAlex | W2321776741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
people they classify as deviants or criminals. Theis belief interferes with their ability to accept people who engage in deviance as fully human, competent beings. A structured exercise is described here in which students articulate the rationalizations for their own deviant behavior and then criticize their own rationalizations. In this process they come to recognize that their ways of thinking about their deviant acts are not very different from the rationalizations of serious or professional offenders
Criminology · Deviance (statistics · Higher education · Obstacle · Political science · Positive deviance · Sociology · Statistics · Humor Studies and Applications · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Mathematics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2017 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |