SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Differential Association, Social Reality, Street Justice

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

Differential association: (sutherland: criminal behaviour is learned. Negatively this means that criminal behaviour is not inherited: criminal behaviour is learned in interactions with other persons in a process of communication. This communication is verbal in many respects but also included a communication of gestures: the principal part of learning of criminal behaviour occurs within intimate personal groups. It refers to both criminal and anticriminal associations and has to do with counteracting forces: differential association may vary in frequency, duration, priority, and intensity. Poverty, joblessness, and discrimination lead to conditions that create cultures that support violence. Leaves individual"s with perception that all they have is their own self- worth. Code dictates that violence is expected in response to disrespect. Violence is also a method to gain and increase respect. Characteristics that help build an identity: anger: Willing to risk your life to get revenge on somebody. Violent environment: everyone around me acts violently, learn repercussions if i don"t act violently.