CRCJ 4002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Control, Behaviorism, Frankfurt School

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 4002
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

This is the very sight of the expression of social control. When we act we can"t do it without employing attitudes of others towards ourselves. We have to adopt the attitudes of others in order to be ourselves. Wants to include social processes in concept of mind. We can"t understand individuals only based on physiological point of view. Some changes can be attributed to physiological change, but they are limited and narrow. Looking at the mind from behaviourist perspective means were never passively viewing the world. Social control works by people adopting attitudes of others when defining reality. We will generalize the attitude the other, in order to simplify the complexity of the world. How can society limit the possibility of interpretation in order to allow for the coordination of behaviour. Only saying we don"t access solid facts or simple facts. Factuality in itself is meaningless until we give it meaning.