SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Empiricism, Differential Association, Erving Goffman
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Strain and conflict theories deal with causes of crime at the level of social structure, however interactionist theories, pay attention to smaller details of social life. Crime is a consequence of interpersonal relationships. Looks at the meanings of interpersonal relationships. Central concept is the deviant career: deviant career: passage of an individual through the stages of one or more related deviant identities. Centers on the interchanges people have with one another and on the meanings of the interchanges in the past, present and future. Symbolic interactions: a sociological perspective that focuses on the dynamics of how people interpret social situations and negotiate the meaning of these situations with others. It differs from structurally focuses perspectives in seeing individuals as actively creating the social world than just acting within the constraints of culture and social structure. Interactionalist theories of crime are derived from symbolic interactions and is based on three premises: 1.
