CC100 Lecture 7: Chapter 7 Social Structure Theories
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Sociology examines crime as an interaction with social forces. The effects of changing cultural norms, social institutions, and. The effect of socialization in family with peers technology. Natural areas: zones or neighbourhoods that develop as a result of social forces operating in urban areas and become natural areas for crime. Social class lifestyle: unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige, people who have similar wealth, values, attitudes, and. Upper: small number of exceptionally well-to-do families who maintain enormous financial and social resources. Reduced poverty among the elderly: access to healthcare, pensions, social security, retirees are actually in better financial conditions than many working individuals. 16% of children live in poverty (2004) Effects: baron: occupational strain solved by crime, bolland: hopelessness increases violence, substance use, sexual behaviour, and accidental injury. Oscar lewis (1996): the culture of poverty: apathy, cynicism, mistrust of social institutions, cause/effect of poverty, transmitted from generation to generation, self-defeating.
