SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Differential Association, Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism

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

Document Summary

Labeling theory: explains how crime and deviance are defined and how rule breaking is reacted to by those in power, recall the social reaction perspective! Deviant identities: lemert (1969, primary deviance: initial deviant act, secondary deviance: societal reaction, internalizing the label. Critical criminology: focuses on conflict 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. Left realism: two main causes of working-class street crime, relative deprivation, ineffective policing. Feminist perspectives: committed to advocating for the rights and equality of women in society, ex. Liberal feminism social feminism radical feminism marxist. Power control theory: hagan et al. (1979, teenaged boys are freer to deviate than teenaged girls, amount of power a parent has in the workplace influences their teenaged children, patriarchal vs. egalitarian households.