SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Differential Association, Edwin Sutherland, Symbolic Interactionism

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Focus on ideas and behaviours are learned: criminal behaviours can be learned. Processes of learning, what is learned by the people. Influences: psychological learning theories (conditioning, aristotle (learning from experience) Criminal behaviour is learned - being trained. Criminal behaviour is learned through interactions with others in a process of communication. Principle part of learning criminal behaviour occurs within intimate personal groups - not tv, not movies, not games, but specific friends. When criminal behaviour is learned, learning includes: technique of committing crime, specific direction of motives, drives, and attitudes, impacts how we see certain situations. The process of learning criminal behaviour by association and anti criminal patterns involve all the same learning as any other learning (eg. research) Techniques, motives, those definitions favorable to law violations. Process: content learned through those associations, from members of intimate personal groups. Updated process: differential association, definitions, differential reinforcement( rewards, punishments), imitation(learning from other people) Crime and deviance are caused by associations with other people,

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