Three Theoretical Approaches To Social Psychology

The understanding of the three theoretical approaches you have to know what deviance mean in sociology. Deviance means any violation of norms and it is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant. For example, someone running over the speed limit sigh or as serious as murder. It doesn’t matter how minor or how big the act is only that it only the reaction it obtains from doing it. The three theoretical approaches are symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory. Symbolic interactionism deals with mostly the micro-sociology and social psychology. In the theory of differential association it explains that when we have two groups with different attitudes and behaviors we inter imbalance where …show more content…
Functionalism is when all things in society have a function or role with in that socially. In a Functionalist perspective everyone is pushed to have common goal such as cultural goals like being rich or having a rank. They have one way to reaching ways of reaching cultural goals called institutionalized means that are approved by socially. A functionalist theory of deviance, strain theory, talks about that if people with in the society follow the cultural goals for success some people fall short of it and instead enter the life of crime and make a new path of innovative means. There is also the one that does not conform with either institutionalized means and innovative means. They enter into nonconformity which they either make their own goals of socially or not follow the goals and want to destroy socially goals. Structure is not just the goals of society, but the social class they are in. In each class there are different types of crime committed. In a low class this people want to get the latest things because they advertised by the media, friends, and school. For these people, it is hard to find a means of obtaining this possession, and the reason is that they have little education background and struggle in school. This is why they look towards gangs and the life of crime because they don’t excel in education. They have to found other means of making a living. In a high class, there are white-collar crime where people are respectable of them …show more content…
Conflict theory is that society competes for limited rewards such as power or riches. Conflict theory is where class of power develop ruling such as the criminal justice system, where they punish the crimes of the poor while diverting its own criminal activities away form this punitive system. It can all be because a persons status, race, or even gender that give them false accusations towards them. For example, if you beat someone who was a lot smaller then you and you was white, you would have a much less charge on you then if you was black. Your races, genders, and class determines how deviant people consider you. Conflict theory is basically about the corruption within a system that claims equality, but really does not provided what they really