Functionalism, Strain and Sub-cultural theories
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- Functionalism, strain and subcultural theories
- Durkheim's Functionalist Theory
- The inevitability of crime
- Crime is inevitable
- Not everyone has shared norms and values
- Creates anomie
- Boundary Maintenance
- Purpose of punishment is to reaffirm society's shared rules and social solidarity
- Public stigmatisation discourages others to commit crime
- Adaption and Change
- All change starts with an act of deviance
- Too much crime threatens society's bonds
- Too little crime means society is controlling and repelling it's members too much.
- Evaluation
- Doesn't consider the negatives of crime
- Doesn't say how much crime is right
- ignores individuals
- The inevitability of crime
- Merton's Strain Theory
- The American Dream
- Tells Americans that society is meritocratic
- Disadvantaged groups are denied opportunities e.g poverty
- This produces frustration which creates pressure to resort to crime
- Deviant adaptions to strain
- 1. Conformity
- 2.Innovation
- 3.Ritualism
- 4.Retreatism
- 5.Rebellion
- Evaluation
- Merton sees crime as a working-class phenomenon - not all commit crime
- Marxists - ignores power of ruling class
- The American Dream
- Subcultural strain theories
- Durkheim's Functionalist Theory
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