Posted on 03/19/2010 9:28:30 PM PDT by captjanaway
In 1993, Sen. Daniel Moynihan published a momentous article entitled “Defining Deviancy Down.” In it, he explained that by defining what is deviant we know what is not and thereby we are able to live together with shared standards. Moynihan proposed that the amount of deviancy in American society had outgrown our capacity to control it, forcing us to re-define it so that abnormal behavior became leniently accepted as normal. He listed several instances of this phenomenon, perhaps none with as far-reaching consequences as the breakdown of the traditional family whose ripple effects were felt in drug use, teen pregnancy, and crises in education and crime.
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Sounds interesting, will read tomorrow. So far I agree with the introduction.
good article!
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