SOCI 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Forces, Trait Theory, Consumerism
22 Sep 2015
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Different approach previous theories we have looked at held assumption that in a normal state, we would not deviate. Quicker and easier to release our frustrations and emotions using criminal means / to steal a laptop than buy one. We all have the motivations for deviance we all have the capacity and the means to be deviant. Inadequate social control results in deviance their explanation for deviance is inadequate social control. individuals commit crime when their bonds to society are weak or broken. Those who are strongly integrated in systems and institutions have stronger bonds (e. g. with your family). These bonds are going to restrict the likelyhood that you will deviate. Ruth cornhouser argues that strain theory and control theory are branches under the umbrella of social disorganization. Strain theory says that poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and residential mobility make it less likely for members of the community to exercise informal social control, i.
