Shaw and McKay (1942) concentrated their research into the city of Chicago, Illinois, which is growing rapidly in the early 1900s. Cullen and Agnew (2011) point out that the population of Chicago has doubled from 1 million in 1890 to 20 years. According to Cullen and Agnew (2011), in this era of rapid expansion, research has begun to make a different way of thinking about crime. Cullen and Agnew (2011) point out that researchers are beginning to believe that crime is not understood when studying the characteristics of individual crime, but understanding of the environmental characteristics of criminal life and interactions is beginning to be believed There.
In this article I will explain the two social theories of social structure and social process. It will also cover some branches of these theories; collapse theory, strain theory, cultural prejudice, social learning theory, social control theory, and social reaction theory. It will cover several branches and ideas among these sub theories; differential correlation theory, neutralization theory, neutralization technique and social relation theory. It will also study how these theories are trying to explain the phenomenon of gang violence.
Social learning theory is a theory that explains the socialization and its impact on self-development. There are many different theories that explain how people become social, such as psychoanalysis theory, functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interaction theory. Like other people, social learning theory focuses on the social impact on individual learning process, self-organization, and individual socialization. Social learning theory believes that the formation of human identity is a learning response to social stimulation. It emphasizes the social context of socialization rather than personal thought. The theory assumes that the identity of an individual is not the unconscious product (such as the belief of the psychoanalyst theory) but the result of self-imitation that meets the expectations of others. The development of behavior and attitudes is to respond to the strengthening and encouragement of people around us.
In social psychology social identity theory studies the interaction between individuals and social identity. Social identity theory is aimed at specifying and predicting how individuals view themselves as individuals or groups of members. The theory also takes into account the impact of personal and social identity on individual perceptions and collective behavior. The theory of social identity evolved from a series of studies (often referred to as minimal group studies) conducted by British social psychologist Henri Tajfel and colleagues in the early 1970s. Participants are assigned to groups designed to be as arbitrary and meaningless as possible. However, if you are asked to assign a score to another research participant, you will be given more systematic points to the members of the group than members outside the group.