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Juan Guevara Chapter 5 Oct. 2nd, 2019. After reading the chapter, I wanted to discuss how I identified some of these perspectives that have applied to my life. The two which seem to be more significant are  Social Science and the Interpretive perspective (Martin pg. 168, 2018).  The social science perspective and how it applies to my career. I used to not discuss my career with literally no one other than others within my career; Law Enforcement. This was conditioned into me in the first department I worked for. It was an unspoken rule for some odd reason. I worked there for a year; however, it took me years to overcome this mentality. When I first began my career I was very closed-minded and it didn't help that I was very young (21). It was very much a us vs. them mentality. Them being criminals, us being the guys fighting crime.  Initially, I identified as a police officer and mostly just a police officer. The men and women I worked with, I agreed with them on...