SOCY 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edwin Sutherland, Differential Association, Operant Conditioning
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Lecture 2: learning theories: assume people are blank slates and that motivation is rooted in social relationships, differential association/social learning theory. People are not predisposed to committing deviant acts; everything we are is the accumulation of our experiences and associations. Critiques (1) assumes all behavior is learned (2) does(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es ix) what are some policy implications of learning theories? (1) dare (2) re-socialization and re-education therapies: micro, subcultural theory. A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differs in some significant way from the larger society (have own social norms like code of the streets) Informal controls (families, peers, neighbors, employers, churches, (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)o(cid:396)hood o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)zatio(cid:374)s (cid:895: disadvantage. Lack of available marriage partners, contact with mainstream society, and conventional role models. Race/ethnic implications; minority groups are more likely to experience concentrated disadvantage: policy implications, head start program, neighborhood watch.
