SOC-3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Overeating, Universal Preschool, Premarital Sex

• School: App State
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC-3340
• Professor: Kenneth Sanchagrin

Document Summary

Self-control theory (consensus theory: consensus model assumptions: Groups in society agree about what is right and wrong. Laws reflect the important shared values of society. There is a single moral order in a society: behavior is not relative, impulses towards crime are natural, the development of the self-control theory. Top-down theory: develop theory observe behavior and gather evidence test theory. Planning: self-control: extent to which someone is vulnerable to temptations of the moment. Nonverbal mental: self control theory: low self-control free to commit delinquency and crime. However, not only does self-control affect delinquency and crime, in also affects other analogous behaviors: Overeating, smoking, drinking, doing drugs (legal and illegal) Children born outside of marriage, premarital sex, affairs, divorce. Therefore: low self control delinquency/crime and analogous behaviors: situationality of low self-control. High self-control criminal opportunity never criminal. Children vary in their in-born levels of self-control. Parents must supervise children and identify and punish deviance: this must occur in early childhood.