SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Peer Pressure, Symbolic Interactionism, Edwin Sutherland
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People act deviantly for different reasons: choice: deviant counterculture, try to get attention. Goths, revolutionaries, neglected kids: pressure: individuals act deviantly because of pressure from others. Peer pressure to be part of a gang, to skip school: ignorance: individuals might simply not know norms. Tourists, recent immigrants have not adjusted yet (i. e. stopping in the middle of the side walk: socialization: individuals might be socialized by family to act contrary to dominant cultural norms, subculture. Rural values, no interest in mainstream culture, higher education discouraged. We learn what is acceptable and what is deviant from our social interactions. We define our self-concept based on reactions of others. Suggests we act deviantly either because we observe it in our relations or because our relations react to us as deviant. S. i theories: differential association: edwin sutherland, people with whom you interact frequently and intensely with shape you the most. When those close to you act deviantly, so will you.
