SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Informal Social Control, Balance Theory, Impulsivity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

Age graded theory of social control: combine social control with self control. Events or experiences that alter or disrupt behavioral patterns. Events or life circumstance that weaken or destroy the relationships. Social structural factors that influence adolescent informal social control. They social control we can offer in the family can make commitment at school. Importance of individual propensity(low self-control):more family control, kids can drop the class at school, which is not good for the relationship with teacher. they will have problem forming friendship with older people. Cumulative continuity: a developmental model that outlines how crime in adolescence has negative consequences for future life chances in area such as education, relationships and employment, and increases the like hood that criminal behavior will continue into adult hood. These in turn undermine further life chances, escalating the probability of continued, persistent criminal behavior.