FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Medicalization, Victimless Crime, Differential Association

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Merton"s strain theory cultural goals: conformity: uses approved means, innovation: strains between cultural goals and opportunities to get them; people may use illegitimate means (e. g. crime, ritualism: inner rejection of cultural goal, retreatism: dropping out, rebellion: seek new cultural goals. Medicalization of deviance: the transformation of moral and legal issues into a medical condition, deviant behavior, such as alcoholism or sexual promiscuity, are defined today as illnesses, the difference labels make, who responds to deviance (police or doctors?, how people respond to deviance (punishment or treatment?) Sutherland"s differential association theory: a persons tendency toward conformity or deviance depends on the amount of contact with others who encourage or reject conventional behavior, learning any behavioral pattern is a process that takes place in groups, e. g. young people are more likely to engage in delinquency members of their peer groups encourage this behavior. : strong belief in conventional morality and respect for authority: attachment, opportunity, involvement deviance reduces deviance, belief.