SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6, 8-11, 13-15: Rosetta Cutolo, Larceny, Social Control Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Specify gender as a critical variable in understanding crime. Designed to sensitize scholars to the relative invisibility of women in the field. Largely based on a view of patriarchal society that empowers males in virtually all social interaction that matters. Most important part is that males fail to understand the importance of gender and sex roles in society. Another goal is to produce a distinctly feminist perspective on society. Paternalism organized around independence for men and dependence for women. Sexism refers to attitudes or practices having the effects of producing inequality between the sexes. Classification of perspective: no accurate classification, but they may generally all be considered structural and conflict oriented. Suggested criminologists had overemphasized the original deviant act as well as the character deviant. Classification of theory: predominantly processual, but has some elements of structure classical theory but positivist when looking at effects of labeling conflict microtheory.