SOCI 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Michael Bloomberg, Peer Group, Social Capital
19 Jun 2020
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Crime a function of individual socialization + interactions: people have with organizations, institutions and processes of society. Socialization: process of human development and enculturation. Influenced by: family relationships, peer groups, education, Interactions with authority figures (teachers, employers, justice system) Social process theory: crime a function of people"s interaction with organizations, institutions, and processes in society. Fundamental in all social process theories: all people regardless of race, class, gender potential to become criminal, crime not lower-class phenomenon. Lower class: have added burdens, poverty, racism, poor education, disrupted family lives, less chance of having positive social capital, more chance to interact with anti-social influences. Counteracted by positive peer relations: supportive families educational success, positive social capital, less prevalent in socio-economic circumstances. Which comes first: are person from challenged circumstances brought into crime because of circumstance, or those inclined ends up in challenging circumstances from innate variables. Traits: lack work ethic, lac intelligence, less morality.
