SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peer Pressure, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Inner pushes eric was quite aggressive and impulsive, defiant against authority: both had feelings of inferiority, outer pushes experienced social inequality, maltreatment/bullying, peer pressure. By combining notions, the groundwork for a stronger theory is developed; social learning enhances the social control theory; otherwise the later is more incomplete than correct. All three theories have some signi cant explanatory power; social control manifested the greatest explanatory power. Social control & applicable to young women as to young men. We keep creating more theories: edward"s theory is an end-to-end model, took four whole theories and put them in one after the other. Why do we need theory: why, causes predictions, how to reduce crime from happening. Target hardening : think about your neighbourhood and how to reduce the disorder and disorganization, can talk about this from individual or group level, why do argue that certain behaviours are deviant, others perspectives, policy.