SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Binge Drinking, Operant Conditioning, Social Learning Theory
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Fans (juggalo) categorized as a hybrid gang in 2011 by fbi. Icp wins their appeal and had their case against the fbi heard in court in 2015. Tolerance and need to disconnect juvenile offence from adult life. Robert park focused on neighbourhood boys adapting to public life. Edward sutherland: differential association favourable to breaking the law. Differential association example (byrd 2016: binge drinking in and out of college) Need to explain why patterns didn"t seem to persist into adulthood. Needed to make sense of more expressive form of deviance. Strong presence in urban centres: easy to study. Deviant behaviour is learned in a similar way to any other behaviour. A person commits a crime when they are presented with an excess of definitions. College/university drinking patterns tend not to progress into older ages. Students tend to drink more than peers not in school. Peer drinking behaviour was the highest predictor outside of ethnicity.
