SOCIOL 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Control Theory, Peer Pressure, Internal Control
31 Jan 2020
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Flip the question: not: what causes deviance, but: what causes conformity. Internal/external forces of deviance: are those deviant impulses. Internal: apart of us, things that push us to be deviant (reckless personality, risk taker: external: things in environment that push us to be deviant (friends that engage in deviant behavior, family, peer pressure) Internal (strong sense of honor, code of conduct, moral compass: external (parents" expectations, law) Family figures, used the freudian theory of personality: most influenced by freudian theory. Id deepest darkest desires, instincts, basic need for sex, food, love" etc. Governed by the pleasure principle driven to be satisfied: ego moderator, in the middle, trying to satisfy the needs of the id but also be acceptable for society aka the superego. When ego is working well then you have a balanced personality, if not we don"t fit in: superego a bit of society that we are carrying around in our heads.
