LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Capital, Psychopathology, Tums
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Theories of youth crime and deviance: crime and deviance more likely when peoples bonds to society are weakened or broken, modified change is a person"s trajectory is the main focus, what makes a person go one. Modes of individual adaptation: conformity most likely form of adaptation, little strain between goals and means, upper. 2. or middle class children are less likely to deviant from rules then lower class children. Three forms of strain: failure to achieve goals, when others take away valued stimuli (property, respect, when we are confronted by unpleasant circumstances (violent home life) George herbert mead symbolic interactionism: pragmatism humans are problem solvers that change our environments that best suit our success, equal importance on individual and society, human thinking emerges from social communication and interaction, meaning. Significant symbols: same meaning in both speaker and listener notion that meanings that are fundamental to understanding how we interact with people.
