SOCIOL 4511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extortion, Prefrontal Cortex, Limbic System
29 Mar 2017
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More strongly influenced by peers: what role has social networking played in peer relationships, cliques = small groups of friends who share intimate information. Close friends you regularly socialize with: crowd = loosely organized groups who share interests and activities. F. 1. serve as way of establishing status in school: modern issues involving peers and problem behavior. Peer relations and delinquency: peer group relationships are closely tied to delinquent behaviors. Delinquent acts tend to be committed in small groups (co- offending) Delinquent friends cause law0abiding youth to get in trouble (peer influence or learning model) Antisocial youth join up with like-minded friends; look for other delinquents to be friends with (peer selection model) A group of youths who collectively engage in delinquent behaviors: gang expert, malcolm klein"s definition . Members have self-recognition of their gang status and use clothing, vocabulary, names, etc. to represent gang. Gang activity on the rise after a decline in the 1990s.
