Subcultural Strain Theory

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  • Created on: 22-12-17 21:51

SUBCULTURAL STRAIN THEORY

  • subcultures provide alternative opportunity
  • structure for those who are denied chance to achieve legit means - solution functional for their members

Cohen: crime a lower class phenomenon
Beloved responses to strain are a groups
Focused on crimes not for monetary gain

COHENS STATUS FRUSTRATION

  • w/c boys face anomie in m/c dominated school system
  • cannot success so at bottom of status hierarchy
  • suffer status frustration so then to other boys in same situalituon to form a subculture
  • the subculture being based upon hostility for those outside the group (invert mainstream values)
  • subcultures offer alternative status hierarchy in which they can achieve
  • creating illegit opportunity structure where win the status from peers through deviant behaviour
    EVAL
  • able to explain utilitarian crime
  • ignores possibility that they doesn’t share the same goals in the first place so didn’t see themselves as failures

CLOWARD AND OHINS 3 SUBCULTURES

  • note not everyone who is denied legit opportunities become an innovator (engage in utilitarian crime)
  • different subcultures respond in different way
  • explains why different subcultural responses occur - to do with unequal access to illegit opportunity structure
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