SOC101 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Conflict Theories, Edwin Sutherland
8 Apr 2014
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Education and the state (aboriginal, indian residential schools in the u. s and canada: where residential schools came from, and why, sociological tools into looking at school systems. It gets down to a religious belief and understanding. Film: the circle is unbroken education as we seen. Education in canada is a provincial business (diff in every province) Strain theory: strain theory emerged from the work of well-known sociologist, robert mertom. Taking an illegitament rout to get the lifes goodied. He believed by man-integration of cultural and socila structures of organization. First 2 categories are important, other three are not being discussed, most people are conformists, accept gals and ways into getting those goals, but innovators don"t accept the ways/proper ways to reach your goal. Cultural support theory focuses on how cultural beliefs create and sustain deviant behavior. Edwin sutherland argued that people become deviant b/c they are exposed to learning experiences that make deviance more likely.
