Cohen's status frustration
- Created by: KimberleyStorey
- Created on: 12-03-16 21:37
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- Cohen's status frustration
- Believes that deviance comes from the inability of the lower classes to achieve mainstream goals
- Agrees with Merton that deviance is a lower class phenomenon
- Disagrees with Merton that deviance is an individual response as it is mostly done in groups
- Disagrees with Merton as Merton focuses on ulitarian crime as he ignores non ulitarian crime which have no economic motive
- Looks at deviance within the working class boys
- Cohen believes that within the education system they face anomie as it is middle class dominated
- The working class do not have the skills to achieve and end up at the bottom on the hierarchal structure
- Cohen believes that the alternative status hierarchy which gives boys a chance to achieve
- He thinks that they cannot achieve through legitimate means so they suffer status frustration
- Subcultural theory is deterministic
- Subcultural theory is based on accepting the validity of crime statisitcs
- Subcultural theory is deterministic
- They then reject the middle class views as they struggle to adapt to their new low status and then form a delinquent subculture with other in a similar positiion
- An alternative status hierarchy is created which is when a subculture rejects all middle class values
- He thinks that they cannot achieve through legitimate means so they suffer status frustration
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