SOC-3360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Control Theory, Labeling Theory, Relational Aggression
Document Summary
Pathways to delinquency: physical and sexual abuse psychiatric disorders / substance. 3 areas of inquiry (daly): gendered pathways, gendered crime, gendered lives. Gender: the personal traits, social positions, values, and beliefs that members of a society attach to being male or female. Gender role: a societal definition of what constitutes either masculine or feminine behavior. Society defines what is masculine and what is feminine . Aauw study: as young girls moved from elementary schools to high school, caucasian girls lost their self-esteem and african-american girl became disinterested in school. Steps along females" pathway into the juvenile justice system: victimization substance abuse girls acting out. Biological explanations: stress/anxiety, adhd, conduct disorders, intellectual deficits, early. Psychological explanations: psychoanalytical familial-social psychiatric. Sociological explanations: general strain theory, blocked opportunity theory, social learning theory, Social control theory, differential association theory, masculinity hypothesis, power-control theory, labeling.