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| Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory |
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In sociology big debate cultural v. structural
cultural ex. I steal because my family is okay with it
structural ex. I steal because I am poor
ALSO WORKING CLASS PARENTS PREPARE WORKING CLASS KIDS |
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| The recognition that being poor has effects that go beyond the lack of access to resources |
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| Parent-Oriented Parenting |
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working class parents more typically
Wanting the child to obey them to leave them alone
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middle class typically
Focusing much more time on the child
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Parental Buffering Hypothesis
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That parents the effect of parenting insulates children for the community..meaning that if you’re a good parent you’re kid will make good decisions
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As soon as the kid leaves the house… whatever their parents told them when they leave the house and they make their own decision
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· When the husband gets fired from the job and comes home to beat his wife
· Two people have a fight when they live together … they have a fis fight
· violent
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· When a husband is stalking his wife… have to know where one is at all time
· Not necessarily violent
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· Living through someone else-vicarious
· You see someone do something and you take note of the consequnces and take it for yourself
· Brother robs a bank, you learn from him not to do it
· P.44
· Happens in real life
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· Discriminative Learning
· Violence is bad, but its okay sometimes
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Baumrind’s Typology of Parenting Styles
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· P. 44-45
· Responsiveness-the extent to which parents are approachable,warm, supportive, and attuned to the needs of the child
· Demandingness- the extent to which parents exercise control
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| Differential Reinforcement |
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| Stated by Akers- "refers to the balance of anticipated or actual rewards and punishments that follow or are consequences of behavior." |
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| Parents are training their children to be deviant at the same time that their children are training them to engage in inept parenting |
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| parents are learning from the children as well the children learning from the parents. often results in deviant behavior |
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| Characterized by verbal remonstrations and threats, but little or no actual follow-through |
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| disruption or breakdown of the structure of social relations and values resulting in the loss of social controls over individual and group behavior, the development of social isolation and conflict, and a sense of estrangement or alienation from the mainstream of one's culture; the condition or state of anomie. |
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| Near-Group (Gang) characteristics |
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1. Diffuse role definition
2. Limited cohesion
3. Impermanence
4. Minimal consensus
5. Shifting membership
6. Disturbed leadership
7. Limited definition of membership expectations |
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| more violence when more gangs |
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| the degree to which the gang is important to members lives |
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| Today people have individual cliques of gangs (ex. bloods and crips) |
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| crime is not a special kind of activity |
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| things that are like crime |
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| versatility (theoretical) |
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| their theory can explain a lot of different kinds of deviant behavior |
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| A school of thought that treats sociology like physics |
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society is like an art to be examined
society is not something that can be measured
society is too complicated for normal people |
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