Role-Taking, Role Standpoint, and Reference-Group Behavior

Turner, Ralph H.

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“…The intellectual foundation of symbolic interactionism is attributed to the writings by George Herbert Mead (1934) and his student, Herbert Blumer (1969;see also, Becker, 1963;Goffman, 1959;Shibutani, 1961;Stryker, 1980;Turner, 1962a).…”

Section: Symbolic Interactionismmentioning

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“…In developing their theory, Schwartz and Stryker were influenced by the proposition that the self is a complex and differentiated structure of identities put forth by symbolic interactionism (see Loftland, 1969;Mead, 1934;Turner, 1962a). Schwartz and Stryker also borrowed from Albert Cohen's (1955) work the image of the delinquent boy as a role player in search of an identity.…”

Section: Masculinity-delinquency Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

Ngo¹,

Paternoster²,

Curran³

et al. 2010

Justice Quarterly

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In 1994, Karen Heimer and Ross Matsueda collaborated and developed Differential Social Control (DSC) theory. Heimer and Matsueda posit that the proximate cause of crime is role-taking which encompasses five major processes: 1) reflected appraisals of self as a rule violator, 2) anti-social attitudes, 3) anticipated disapproval of deviant acts from family and friends, 4) criminal associations, and 5) prior experience with crime and delinquency. Taking these processes together, DSC argues that the likelihood of crime and delinquency increases when an individual believes that others view him as a rule violator, holds anti-social attitudes, anticipates limited disapproval of deviance from family and friends, associates with deviant peers, and has repeatedly solved prior problematic situations using criminal or delinquent behaviors. DSC also posits that more distal factors such as role commitment and structural locations affect crime and delinquency indirectly via role-taking.Unlike other theoretical perspectives also formulated in the 1990s, DSC has received scant theoretical discussion and empirical attention. To date, DSC has only been evaluated in a handful of empirical tests. The primary aim of this dissertation is to expand the body of empirical research assessing DSC. In particular, this dissertation examines DSC's ability to explain recidivism among a sample of adult offenders released from Maryland prisons.Overall, the results generated from this dissertation do not lend support for DSC's ability to account for recidivism. Specifically, the results revealed that only two of the five measures of role-taking, anti-social attitudes and number of prior arrests, were consistent significant predictors of recidivism. The results also indicated that measures of role-commitment were not generally related to recidivism and as a consequence, the hypothesized mediating effects of role-taking on the relationship between role commitment and recidivism by DSC were not supported. The results also showed that with the exception of age, social location measures generally were not related to recidivism and thus, definite statements on the mediating effects of DSC's central concepts on this relationship could not be drawn. ROLE TAKING AND RECIDIVISM: A TEST OF DIFFERENTIAL SOCIAL

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Section: Symbolic Interactionismmentioning

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Section: Masculinity-delinquency Theorymentioning

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Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

Ngo¹,

Paternoster²,

Curran³

et al. 2010

Justice Quarterly

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“…However, the function of role is very subtle. Turner (1956) defined role as a set of behaviors that could be regarded as a meaningful unit, and the meaningful unit makes the linkage between behaviors and roles that could be understood or could be expected by others. Dahrendorf (1968, p.6-7) further defined Homo Sociologicus as the bearer of socially predetermined roles.…”

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“…Hence, it is more relevant to discuss how a role interacts with other roles than to discuss the status or position of the roles. In addition, role is a set of norms (Turner, 1956), and norms guide what Homo Sociologicus should do and how he interacts with others (Thoits, 1992). Although Homo Sociologicus may not be willing to fulfill that role, he cannot relinquish his role without paying a price, because roles will create expected modes of behavior for the Homo Sociologicus, and there will be penalties if he fails to fulfill these expectations.…”

Section: Homo Sociologicusmentioning

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Learning to be Sociable: The Evolution ofHomo Economicus

Tseng

2008

American J Econ Sociol

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This paper studies the evolution of the economic man (Homo Economicus) from its original conception till current day. By analyzing the discourse of economic articles, we provide a chronological account of the economic man's intellectual and philosophical development as it evolved from what we term as the philosophical age to the neo-classical age and finally to the strategic age. The paper then shows how the economic man in the strategic age is slowly finding convergence with the sociological man (Homo Sociologicus). A reconciliation of the two sapiens is difficult. However, recent papers on behavioral and experimental economics provide insights into a possible reconciliation. Our study argues that the purpose of the sociological man is to identify who he is, how he interacts with people within a society and the antecedents to such behaviors. Homo-Economicus, however, has no overarching philosophical assumptions on what he values. The objectives of each discipline are different and once one is mapped on to the other, it is unclear if there is truly any tension between them.

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“…Однако референтная «группа» совсем не обязательно является группой [Shibutani, 1955: 565;Turner, 1956: 328, Runciman, 1972, что было осозна-но самим автором термина [Hyman, 1942: 25-29]. Референтом для сравнения может служить также отдельный человек, коллектив и социальная категория.…”

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Relative Deprivation Amidst Financial and Economic Crisis

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2016

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Role-Taking, Role Standpoint, and Reference-Group Behavior

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Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

Learning to be Sociable: The Evolution ofHomo Economicus

Relative Deprivation Amidst Financial and Economic Crisis

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