SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Differential Association
5 Jan 2019
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People simply learn crime and deviance just like any other kind of behaviour. People learn by interacting with other deviants; by differential association . People learn how to commit crimes and attitudes to accomplish it (i. e. people learn. Motivation (but then we feel bad) ---> t of n ---> deviate. Denial of responsibility: i didn"t mean it! in a position where you can"t make decisions so you cant be held responsible for the actions you engage in. Denial of victim: they had it coming. condemning the condemners: the rich deserve it . ---where you accept responsibility and you accept that someone was hurt but you say under the circumstances my behavior was acceptable. I do take responsibility and i don"t deny it but i did it for a good reason. Not accepting moral behavior but the other person is actually worse. Appeal to higher loyalties: i didn"t do it for myself .
