SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parenting Styles, Differential Association, Extremism
10 Mar 2020
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Agents of socialization contribute: family relations, school/education, peer influences, institutional involvement/belief. Social process factors: family relations: long standing role in theories of deviance, parenting style, single parenthood, parental issues, child abuse/neglect. Influence model: peer affiliations provide the social environment for learning deviance, deviants have the same social abilities as non-deviants, social networks of deviants and non-deviants are similar, behaviour comes first! Social process factors: institutional involvement: people who hold strong moral or religious beliefs and values tend to be engaged in less crime, participation in religious services contributes to decreased delinquency. Involvement with other activities (i. e. sports and clubs) has similar impact. Social learning theories: differential association theory, differential reinforcement theory, neutralization theory. Differential reinforcement: burgess and akers, builds on differential association by integrating psychological learning, deviance is reinforced by positive gain, deviance is weakened by negative stimuli or loss of reward.
