In “What Poverty Does to the Young Brain” (The New Yorker, 06/04/2015: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-poverty-does-to-the-young-brain), the author writes, “In a longer-term study published two years ago, neuroscientists at four universities scanned the brains of a group of twenty-four-year-olds and found that, in those who had lived in poverty at age nine, the brain's centers of negative emotion were more frequently buzzing with activity, whereas the areas that could rein in such emotions were quieter. Elsewhere, stress in childhood has been shown to make people prone to depression, heart disease, and addiction in adulthood.” In other words, adults who grew up in poverty are more likely to exhibit deviant (not normal) behaviors: aggressivity and addiction (we can include depressive behaviors). Which theory of deviance best explains this?
In “What Poverty Does to the Young Brain” (The New Yorker, 06/04/2015: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-poverty-does-to-the-young-brain), the author writes, “In a longer-term study published two years ago, neuroscientists at four universities scanned the brains of a group of twenty-four-year-olds and found that, in those who had lived in poverty at age nine, the brain's centers of negative emotion were more frequently buzzing with activity, whereas the areas that could rein in such emotions were quieter. Elsewhere, stress in childhood has been shown to make people prone to depression, heart disease, and addiction in adulthood.” In other words, adults who grew up in poverty are more likely to exhibit deviant (not normal) behaviors: aggressivity and addiction (we can include depressive behaviors).
Which theory of deviance best explains this?
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