SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jock Young, Left Realism, Relative Deprivation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

People are active in shaping their world: reality" is developed through interactions with others. Herbert blumer (1969: humans act toward things on the basis of the meanings they ascribe those things, meanings come from the social interaction one has with others. Explains how crime and deviance are de ned and rule breaking is reacted to by those in power: recall the social reaction perspective! Secondary deviance: societal reaction, internalizing the label. Rooted in the work of karl marx: marx argued that capitalism would inevitably produce internal tensions that would lead to its own destruction, false consciousness vs class consciousness, bourgeoisie vs proletariat. Emphasizes social, political, and economic inequality between social groups. Focus on con ict between powerful and less powerful classes. Criminologists should focus on rule makers, not just rule breakers. The state secures and maintains the interests of the economic elites. Two main causes of working class street crime: 1) relative deprivation, 2) ineffective policing.