SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Travis Hirschi, Internal Control, Social Inequality
8 Apr 2013
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Blame the parents perspective: too liberal, too lax, going to rebel, tiger moms - why chinese people tend to be more successful than north american. Is there a happy medium somewhere? people, chinese mothers play the role of the tiger-strict discipline-piano lessons, homework. Fundamental assumptions: most theories tend to set out with goal of explaining why someone would chose to be a criminal, compelled to criminal behaviour. People are fundamentally good: social controlled theorists- nature of humanity. Needs to be contained for the good of the wider society. Outer controls: outer control: what directly do you stand to lose if one chooses deviant lifestyle. Informal: community, stigma that might arise from ridicule, gossip. Personality, what is going on in our own brain. Norms become socialized through threat of sanctions, theorized that those eventually become internalized over time. Simply internalized by individual through appropriate socialization. Family ties theory (ivan nye, 1958): 4 types of familial control\:
