After learning about Edwin Sutherland's differential association in class, do you think it is true? If so, would you ever make your own list to see if you are or are not a deviant person?
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Edwin Sutherland's theory on differnential association is very true we learn from a young age how to act what is eceptable by learning from ever last person we encounter we see someone do something then get arrested or repremanded in some way we automaticly know that was the wrong thing to do but on the other had if someone does something and gets prased we learn that its ok but this is not the best way to judge right from wrong. some people get repramanded for doing what they beleive is right and what truly may be right and some people get glorified for doing something wrong. i would never write out a list because i know that i am a social deviant because of the acts i commit on a daily basis and how people constantly look down on me for stuff that has just become part of my life style because of the fact that i was told that these bad behaviors were okay based on the actions of others but in reality i'm probably hurting society, myself, and most importantly the people i care about. so Edwin Sutherland's Differential association is very true and i am a prime example.
i absolutely agree that differential association applies in all societies. i feel that EVERY person you come in contact to effects your behavior in some way, whether positive or negative way. you're constantly taught lessons, values, and behaviors by all of those around you. the people who are around you more will without a doubt have more of an effect on you. the behaviors you learn from them will effect how you act and who you become. i think that the people around you make you either want to be like them, or they make you want to be nothing like them. regardless, they effect you.
people are constantly judged on these learned behaviors. those who are judged as "bad" or "wrong" are labeled as deviant. and when you associate with these deviant people, you are more likely to become deviant yourself because you are learing that behavior. learning new behaviors from others is like learning to talk. it's that simple. the more time you spend around someone, the more likely you are to imitate what they do. even if you dont agree with what this person is doing, if you spend enough time around it, it becomes all you know and you fall into the habit anyways. obviously, there are some exceptions to this and there are some people who are strong enough to escape these situations, but for the most part, i would have to say that you behave very much like the people you're around.
not only is it a learned behavior, but people are usually drawn to others who have SOMETHING in common with them. in this case, you are usually similiar when it comes to the level of deviance as well. if you are deviant, you are most likely to be drawn to deviant people and to spend more time with them than those who are not deviant and vice versa.
i wouldnt write out a list to see whether i am a deviant or not, mainly because i dont care to know. i dont like to be labeled (thought everyone is at some point) and i wouldnt intentionally put myself in a situation where it was guaranteed to become labeled. i try not to label others and i wouldnt want to be labeled myself. in addition to that, i alone am not "society". deviance is a title that the society gives to you. i dont think it would be fair to base my "label" off of my single, clearly biased opinion. so, you (other members of society) can decide whether you think i'm deviant or not, but i alone will not (and cannot) make that decision.
After learning about Edwin Sutherland's differential association in class, I agree that we learn from when were born how to act, what to do, what's right or not, etc...I think everything that happens to you from birth on has something to do with your behavior till today. We all learn from right and wrong. So, if we saw someone doing something bad (at a young age) and no one told us it was bad, then we would think it was the right thing to do. Also, people label us as deviant or not whether we do something good or bad. I would never make my own list to see if I was a deviant person or not. I wouldn't make a list because, I don't care to know if I am or not. Also, because I don't want to be labeled as a "deviant" person or not a deviant person. I know most people don't like to be labeled and I’m one of them, so that's why I wouldn’t make a list to see if I was deviant or not.
I think its true about Edwin Sutherland's differential association in class, that we learn from a young age on how to act and our influences around us teach us about deviance, like if your at home and your parents aren’t very strict and let you do what ever you want and let you talk back to them with out getting in trouble that your learn that you don’t have to listen and if you can talk back to your parents then you can talk back to anyone. Like how I have been raised I no that you are supposed to listen to elder and people with power because mostly they have something to teach you and you might want to learn. But you have some people who don’t care and like to do what they want and those are people who smoke pot, drink at a young age, and just do stuff that in our society in either against the law or against social norms. And you don’t get labeled socially deviant until you repeatedly do an act over and over but let’s say you graffiti a building once then you did a deviant act but you are not socially deviant until you repeatedly do an act. Like me I could be a deviant person in some peoples eyes because you could be doing something that goes against there religion or it might be a pet peeve of there’s. But people in society are labeled deviant because they defy the norms of everyday culture and attitude repeatedly.
I believe that Edwin Sutherland's theory is true because people are influenced so much by the environment and other people. Even though people might not be saying it out loud, most of life is peer pressure. Those who have authoritative power expect us to conform, and most do. If you hang out with a group of people on a regular basis it is because there is some common ground between you. Most likely you are indeed more like your friends than you realize. After sitting down and analyzing yourself this will probably be very clear. I wouldn't have to to make my own list because I know that I am not a deviant person. I have never really had a problem with authority, and for the most part I see the necessity of having rules, regulations, and laws. Just thinking about my closest friends I know that we share the same morals and that we are generally good people who don't deviate. I think the people who would have the hardest time with making a list is if they aren't very close to other people, or their group differs so much. I think the most important thing is that people need to see who they want to be and take note of if their "friends" deter them from that goal or not.
All right, here we go again. The idea of "Differential Association" is in my mind to be vary spot on to how humans interact with each other. People will tend to have a thought on how to change something in there surroundings that others can see and if they like it and its outcome than they will do it as well, so really people recycle other ideas by changing them to fit into their perception of world. In short people get most of their idea and by extension thoughts from the interaction with others and detectable phenomenon that they have though live. Really it comes down to this humans are nosy and mess with things that they maybe should not be. But WE can not change large things on our own so we change people around us and so on until society as a hole changes. WE may not know it but are minds are plastic and we contently change to out side stimuli so how people around us act can change how we( are selfs) act.
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