“So the Structural Functionalist perspective on deviance provides some useful ways about how deviance works on a macro-scale, but it works on the assumption that everyone who does deviant things will be treated as deviant. The other paradigms of sociology call this into question. They point out that social impacts how deviance is punished, or … Continue reading
“While some elements of personality may be inherited, psychologists generally see personality as a matter of socialization. So they see deviance as a matter of improper or failed socialization…. This idea that deviance is a matter of impulse control is called Containment Theory, or having a personality that contains deviant actions. And Containment Theory has … Continue reading
“It’s counterintuitive that you would let people do something that is illegal and dangerous in a setting that is safer. But in fact, there’s good scientific and epidemiologic evidence that it saves lives, and we’re in such a terrible epidemic that anything that saves lives, we want to embrace.” ~ Dr. Barbara Herbert, president of … Continue reading
Following my Mayor of Boston post is the separate yet equally powerful list of endorsements for Boston City Council. Endorsements for open seats: Jack Kelly III, District 1 The first time I had the opportunist to meet Jack Kelly was during his run for At-Large City Council back in 2013. After hearing speak about his … Continue reading
Having supported him in the past, it is with great pleasure to support Mayor Marty Walsh for re-election this time around as well. Before I get to the good, I’d prefer to talk about the bad. When it came to the Boston 2024 Partnership, which would bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston. I maintain … Continue reading
Featuring Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side, Miss Congeniality, Speed, Forces of Nature, Gravity), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy), Dominic West (Chicago, John Carter, A Christmas Carol), and Alan Tudyk (Firelfy, Serenity, I, Robot), 28 Days is about how Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist, who is court ordered to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism. According to the Future of Palm Beach‘s article, “Fact vs. … Continue reading
Derek Yates is more than just a pretty face. He is co-founder of 1N3: In memory of Kevin, his mother and brother, Tiki Finlayson and Derek Yates, started 1N3 within days of the crash because “One in three of us are impacted by drunk driving.” They are 1N3, and as a family wanted to do more than … Continue reading
I remember when I first heard Lily Allen’s “Everyone’s at It” above. The tune itself demotes the freak nature of someone feeling like everyone around them is on drugs (legal or not, ingesting anything has effects on you). As Dr. Marcola indicates in this article, “Psychotropic Drug Use Associated with Increased Risk for Car Crashes“: … Continue reading
The recent drug bust in Lawrence is no surprise to me. I am pretty familiar with the reputation of Lawrence as a city. When I lived in Lawrence for 12 years, and told people as such, the response was almost usually: “Lawrence is crazy!” I moved there as a minor in late 1992 with my … Continue reading
This piece above is taken from The Bible Study Union Lessons, published by Union Theological Seminary in 1912 (Charles’ Scribner’s Sons). If you think you are reading that it says, “familiar enough pitiful attempts to broken human beings to rally faith and hope, and with the swift collapse of the enfeebled will,” you, in fact, are. It … Continue reading
