SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Michel Foucault, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Control
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3. opportunities; seek to acquire a rep by ghting over turf retreatist gang: unable to gain success through legitimate means and are unwilling to do so through illegal ones; consumption of drugs is stressed and addiction is prevalent. 7. 3a deviance and power relations: lifestyles deviant by political and economic elites are often illegal, norms and laws are established for the bene t of those in power. 7. 3b deviance and capitalism: marxist/critical theory views deviance and crime as a function of the capitalist economic system, based on assumption that the laws and the criminal justice system protect the power and privilege of the capitalist class. 7. 3d approaches focusing on the interaction of race, class, and gender. 7. 4 symbolic interactionist perspectives on deviance: social processes- how people develop a self-concept and learn conforming behavior through socialization. 3: belief in the legitimacy of conventional values and norms. 7. 6c crime statistics: data re ect only crimes reported to the police.
