Society As Insulation Chapter Review/Reaction Essay

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The whole idea of society's role and function as a matter of control is being turned on its head yet again (Lilly, Cullen & Ball, 2011).

This entire thought pattern dovetails nicely with the Reckless talk of pushes and pulls. Many people that are protesting against private industry and/or society as a whole are no doubt influenced by internal pushes and external pulls. This is not to automatically label all such influencing as deviancy, but there are some that would absolutely do that and no doubt the two parties in many days do the labeling against each other for the same situation (Lilly, Cullen & Ball, 2011).

Even so, the focus of Reckless on juvenile delinquency and other related behavior is a lot less shades of gray and much more black and white. Crime is crime, even if the motives and indicators of it are stemming from something that is more ambiguous and hard to label than the crime itself.

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For example, stealing a loaf of bread is generally a crime but if the motive of the crime is to not starve or, in a more relevant current context, the company selling the break is making record profits, this mitigates if not entirely absolves the person stealing the bread in the eyes of many (Lilly, Cullen & Ball, 2011).

Conclusion

In short, the lines and definitions that make up social norms and deviancy are extremely clouded in the modern context. Many take a black and white view of the subject but it is far from being as simple as some would make it out to be. It will be interesting to see how that dynamic evolves in the coming years and decades because the results will no doubt be tumultuous, especially during years like the ones running from 2007 to 2009 when economic strife was at a peak (Lilly, Cullen & Ball, 2011)......

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