SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Edwin Sutherland, Stamp Collecting, Differential Association

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

Document Summary

Week 7: lecture 2, differential association and neutralization. Murton: no assumptions about people, just normal people caught in an unusual situation, which leads to problem solving and attracting the eye of social control. A focus on explanations which assign central explanatory importance to cultural beliefs. One of the earliest explicit statements of this position was provided in the 1930s by a chicago. School sociologist named edwin sutherland: how people become deviant, to become deviant people must go through a process, different kind of argument then murtons, anomie theory is plagued by an assumption of discontinuity (cohens critique) Sutherland proposed that people become deviant because they have been exposed to learning experiences which make deviance more likely. There exist values and beliefs which are supportive of criminal action and there exist values and beliefs which are supportive of conformist action. How individuals behave depends on the differential exposure they have to these competing value schemes.