SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Poor School, Punk Subculture, Tempora
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Week 5 subcultures and deviance: chapter 8: subcultural and social learning theories. Icp wins their appeal and will have their case against the fbi heard in court. Committed by youths vs. committed by adults. Assumed to be temporary vs. permanent status offences offences because they are young. Tolerance and need to disconnect juvenile offence from adult life. Need to explain why patterns didn"t seem to persist into adulthood. Needed to make sense of more expressive form of deviance: ex vandalism. Strong presence in urban centres: easy to study. Emergence of the gang in the us. Robert park focused on neighbourhood boys adapting to public life. Delinquency focused: youth deviance that could lead to future adult crime. Deviant behaviour is learned in a similar way to any other behaviour: adapt from the people closest to us. A person commits a crime when they are presented with an excess of definitions favourable to breaking the law.
