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Article: The Politics of Deviance.(Book Review)
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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by Anne B. Hendershott San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002, pp. 194 and index.
There is a certain type of lazy-minded Australian who imagines, on the strength of various thoroughly objectionable sociologists, that the whole idea of sociology is a conscious swindle. Since his distaste derives from no inherent aversion to gibberish or sloppy thinking--he will eagerly embrace any economist and any philosopher, however obnoxious or mendacious, who panders to his own views--it clearly has other causes. Examination of these causes requires not so much sustained intellectual effort, as the stoicism of the housewife who steels herself to pick up a moribund cockroach and ...