SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Design, Crime Prevention, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Developed by sigmund freud nineteenth and twentieth century. Believed psychological well-being dependent on functional relationship among three fundamental components of human psyche: id, ego, superego\ Id: consists of primal urges, unconscious drives for things like food and sex. Ego: develops early in childhood, act as mechanism that keeps urges of id in check: type. Superego: develops according to moral standards stemming from values associated with family and community: moral component of persons personality. Criminal behaviour and social deviance come as result of unresolved psychological of moral code conflicts. Study to make connection between what children learn in immediate environment and how it can affect levels of aggression. Parental physical punishment associated with children"s aggression. Aggressive behaviour is learned through series of psychological thought. Children do what they see, not what they are told processes and perceptions. Results of study later supported and developed by albert bandura (1973: bobo doll experiment, findings: observing aggressive acts leads to aggression.