Unit 4 SCLY4 - Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods; Stratification and Differentiation with Theory and Methods
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A* student detailed notes on Gender crime
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Unit 4 SCLY4 - Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods; Stratification and Differentiation with Theory and Methods
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AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level
Detailed notes by an A* sociology student (2024) on gender crime, including theory ( e.g. sex role theory & control theory) with sociologists, such as Parsons, Cohen and Walklate … etc. Notes are in PEEEL structure, which included explanation of the theory and evaluation of it.
Unit 4 SCLY4 - Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods; Stratification and Differentiation with Theory and Methods
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Gender and crime
SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY WOMEN COMMIT LESS CRIME THAN
MEN
Functionalism
Key terms
Sex role
theory
Differential
socialisation
PARSONS
Men = breadwinner + performed largely outside the home
Boys reject feminine models of behaviour → express
tenderness, gentleness & emotion
Boys seek to distance themselves from such models by
engaging in “compensatory compulsory masculinity”
through anti-social behaviour → can slip over into acts
of delinquency
∵ men = ↓ socialised role than women in the
conventional nuclear family, socialisation = ↑ difficult
for boys than girls
Women = perform expressive role in home, where take the main
responsibility for socialising children
COHEN
Lack of adult male role model = boys ↑ likely to turn → all-male
street gang as a source of masculine identity
Status = earned by acts of toughness/ risk taking/
delinquency
EVALUATION
WALKLATE
Criticised sex role theory for its biological assumptions
Assumes that because women have to biological
capacity to bear children = best suited to the
expressive role
Based on untested biological assumptions about sex
diff.
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