SOC205H5 Chapter 14: Reading Note-Chapter 14
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According to terence thornberry human behavior occurs in social interaction and can therefore be explained by models that focus on interactive processes. This view is significant because it suggests that the relationship between variables in thornberry"s model or not you need to rational but rather interactive or reciprocal. His basic model is that you"re in childhood, youngsters develop attachments to parents. When this occurs, you are likely to embrace conventional believes, show a commitment to school, avoid association the delinquent peers, reject delinquent values, and resist wayward conduct. In an attempt to elaborate this basic casual model, thornberry then made to keep theoretical insights: first and most important, he argued that the variables in his model have reciprocal of facts. We compare rental attachment might make delinquent association more likely, but these associations can also we can attachment to parents: second, thornberry also realize that the effects of variables differ with a person stage in the life course.
