Strain & Subcultural Theories
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- Strain & Subcultural Theories
- Subcultural Theories
- Stanley Cohen
- Status Frustration
- working class feel they are denied status in mainstream society
- react by developing delinquent subcultures
- gives working class youth an opportunity to achieve status among peers
- react by developing delinquent subcultures
- working class feel they are denied status in mainstream society
- Evaluation of Cohen
- Strength is that is explains working class delinquency as a group response, rather than focusing on individuals
- Weakness is Cohen assumes working class youth develop delinquent values as a reaction to what they can't achieve
- Matza's study found most young delinquents weren't committed to delinquent values
- Matza
- 3 problems with blaming social structure
- seek to predict delinquency, not all wc are delinquent
- make deviants seem different species than everyone
- ignores free will as if social forces determine behaviour
- delinquent behaviour often driven by subterranean values
- however Matza ignores Hispanic gangs which are actively criminal and permanent
- 3 problems with blaming social structure
- Matza
- Status Frustration
- Cloward & Ohlin
- Criminal
- Emerge in areas with established pattern of adult crime
- Conflict
- Develop in areas, adolescents have little opportunity, gang violence results
- Retreatist
- Some lower class adolescents form subcultures around illegal drug use, failed at success
- Evaluation
- haven't provided convincing explanation for every type delinquency
- fail to recognise crossover between subcultures
- Taylor, Walton & Young some subcultures aren't reacting to own failure, reject norms, values of mainstream society
- haven't provided convincing explanation for every type delinquency
- Criminal
- Miller
- wc create different value system as a response to monotony of wc jobs
- wc subculture is mechanism of processes, allowing wc to cope with their situation
- focal concerns
- smartness
- autonomy
- trouble
- excitement
- toughness
- fate
- wc create different value system as a response to monotony of wc jobs
- Stanley Cohen
- Strain Theories
- Merton
- there is a strain between
- the cultural goals of a society
- legitimate means to achieve these goals
- the cultural goals of a society
- ritualism
- strain theory generates anomie and deviance
- anomie is the loss of shared and guiding principles and norms
- innovation
- retreatism
- conformity
- rebellion
- there is a strain between
- Merton
- Subcultural Theories
- Deviance serves 3 functions
- unites a group
- clarifies rules
- promotes social change
- Strain Theories
- Merton
- there is a strain between
- the cultural goals of a society
- legitimate means to achieve these goals
- the cultural goals of a society
- ritualism
- strain theory generates anomie and deviance
- anomie is the loss of shared and guiding principles and norms
- innovation
- retreatism
- conformity
- rebellion
- there is a strain between
- Merton
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