Briefly discuss the three different trends in the treatment of differential association by later theorists building on Sutherland’s work

What will be an ideal response?


*Answers will vary but may include
* Dan Glaser – differential identification (from symbolic interactionism) explains how the stronger one’s identification with another the more likely to adopt values, not necessarily intimate others
* Donald Cressey – symbolic interaction & role theory to explain how rationalizations & verbalizations motivate behavior (vocabulary of motives)
*Jeffery, Burgess & Akers all used more social learning components with psychological processing/reinforcements to explain nature of associations and definitions

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