Social Process theories just so happen to be my favorite type of theories throughout this entire course. It projects symbolic interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is the social behavior that occurs, which emphasizes the important role that language partakes in a community and children being social-able. Theories involved in social process theories are Ronald Aker’s social learning theory, social control theory, and the labeling theory. Critical theories are about how class and power generates conflict within a society. Marxist, conflict and feminism are a huge part of these critical theories. Marxist philosophy goes in detail about class struggle. Conflict is characterized by three main points; cultural ideas, economic conflict, and the
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Marxist derived from Karl Marx. Karl Marx is the founder/father of critical sociology. He focused on class struggles due to production fields. There were two classes of this field of study; the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The proletariat represents the working and lower class. These were the people who actually worked for what they needed in life through means of labor. The proletariat class was the oppressed class. They wanted to sell their labor at the highest price they could possible sell it for. This is how they made their livings. The bourgeoisie were the people who were the oppressors. They wanted to buy cheap labor at the lowest price possible. The bourgeoisie class was the business owners of the production and establishments. Together these two classes had opposing goals. This gave the bourgeoisie the upper hand because they were in power and had the money. The third class was called the lumpenproletariat class also known as the “social scum” (p. 224). This class did not care about the advancement of the revolution. They did not even expect a revolution. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels referred to criminals as being social scums and a cancer to …show more content…
Most of all of the concepts of social process and critical theories are different.
Both of these theories are very useful to understand both crime and the people that are affected by it and the people who commit it. Also, they apply to criminal justice. Social process theories sort out all types of ways that someone can be understood. It is the psychological approach that we used to figure out why someone committed a crime or committed a specific crime. We look at prosocial behavior and we notice that attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief all play a huge role in Social Process theories.
Understanding crime and the people involved pertaining to Critical Theories; you would have to understand that person’s background. Everyone works to make a living and most of everyone want to make more than a living. Critical theories love to look at things from a restorative justice standpoint. There needs to be peace present because things need to be in the mindset of making peace and deviating away from war. When it comes to the different classes (proletariat and bourgeoisie), in my opinion, there will never [really] be equality. To this day there are people who work in the factories that should be getting paid twice or three times as more as they are
Marxist derived from Karl Marx. Karl Marx is the founder/father of critical sociology. He focused on class struggles due to production fields. There were two classes of this field of study; the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The proletariat represents the working and lower class. These were the people who actually worked for what they needed in life through means of labor. The proletariat class was the oppressed class. They wanted to sell their labor at the highest price they could possible sell it for. This is how they made their livings. The bourgeoisie were the people who were the oppressors. They wanted to buy cheap labor at the lowest price possible. The bourgeoisie class was the business owners of the production and establishments. Together these two classes had opposing goals. This gave the bourgeoisie the upper hand because they were in power and had the money. The third class was called the lumpenproletariat class also known as the “social scum” (p. 224). This class did not care about the advancement of the revolution. They did not even expect a revolution. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels referred to criminals as being social scums and a cancer to …show more content…
Most of all of the concepts of social process and critical theories are different.
Both of these theories are very useful to understand both crime and the people that are affected by it and the people who commit it. Also, they apply to criminal justice. Social process theories sort out all types of ways that someone can be understood. It is the psychological approach that we used to figure out why someone committed a crime or committed a specific crime. We look at prosocial behavior and we notice that attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief all play a huge role in Social Process theories.
Understanding crime and the people involved pertaining to Critical Theories; you would have to understand that person’s background. Everyone works to make a living and most of everyone want to make more than a living. Critical theories love to look at things from a restorative justice standpoint. There needs to be peace present because things need to be in the mindset of making peace and deviating away from war. When it comes to the different classes (proletariat and bourgeoisie), in my opinion, there will never [really] be equality. To this day there are people who work in the factories that should be getting paid twice or three times as more as they are