SOCI 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Online Analytical Processing, Structural Functionalism, Social Control
12 Feb 2016
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Convergence of theories - social change _ social structure + individual action. Greater emphasis on daily life & process of development. View evolution of crime/deviance from childhood to adulthood. Effects of life events on the course of offending. Interaction is key for theory: delinquency requires an interactive setting. Behavior occurs in social interaction, doesn"t just follow x->y path. Prior to 1960 - only end of life was investigated. Human agency: capacity of an individual to act. Interactions with environemtn differ depending on stage of development. Life course: sequence of socially defined events/roles that the individual enacts over time. Sequences are age-graded, separated by normatively defined transitions. Social control variables: mechanisms bond individuals to conventional society. Filter later events through initial schemas that are built in childhood. The effect of an event depends on the age of the individual. Attachment to institutions affects how well an individual transitions. Reliance on unidirectional or recursive models vs. reciprocal.
