CRIM 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Code-Switching, Differential Association
13 Sep 2016
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Which group you value more, how long you"ve been in uenced by one thing or another, how often you hear about the topic from both sides. Assumptions: humans are born as blank slates, and all types of behavior are learned, rejects consensus model, because if everyone agreed on what was right. & wrong, there would be no one to learn bad morals from. History of cultural theories of crime: post-war period (1950s/60s) Economic boom, prosperity and conformity- except for neighborhoods near urban core that were supporting the factories- us vs them mentality. Maybe those neighborhoods are fundamentally and culturally different than assumed mainstream conventional culture. Where does the subculture come from? (why did it arise?) and what is the content of the subculture: these ^ questions are directly related to each other- subcultures are functional, conen 1955. Subcultures come from strain over status and respect. Never going to meet societies standards if you were born in a poor neighborhood.
