Cloward and Ohlin: Three subcultures - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Sociology

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Created on: 16-04-15 10:32

Cloward and Ohlin: Three subcultures

Advantages

Explanation for different types of working-class deviance in terms of different subcultures.

Disadvantages

Ignore the wider power structures, including who makes and enforces the law.
Their theory is too deterministic and over-predicts the extent of working-class crime.
They draw the boundaries too sharply between the different types.
Criticized for assuming that everyone starts off sharing the same mainstream success goals.

Evaluation

Whatever its strengths and limitations, strain theory has had a major influence both on later theories of crime and on government policy.

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