SOCI 2610H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Risk-Seeking, Differential Association, Social Learning Theory
20 Sep 2017
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Social theories of crime: different perspectives on different issues, if deviance is more of an identifiable act, or perceptions, reactions, and a process, positivists theories vs. interpretive and critical theories, positivists aligns with objectivist approaches [last class] Individuals in society are socialized in different roles in many institutions that will help maintain the functioning of society: functionalist theory ex. , organs in the human body, if one thing stops working, it all stops working. Good citizen institutionalized goals and the legitimate means. Shoplifter but have no means to achieve them so we find new ways. We don"t see ourselves achieving the goals, but we are going to try anyway. When we do not accept the goals or the means, so we retreat from society (+) when we reject the goals and means, but we substitute new goals and new means and then work to try to achieve that. It does not account for the role of females: androcentric bias.
