Age and crime: Sub-cultural Explanations - Crime and Deviance - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

1. What theory says working class deviant youth subcultures are a form of ideological resistance and to what?

Marxism - Resistance to dominant adult value system shaped by ruling class and capitalist values
Marxism - Resistance to dominant adult value system shaped by middle class and capitalist values
Neo Marxism - Resistance to dominant adult value system shaped by middle class and capitalist values

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To gain status - They 'invert' traditional middle class vaues - behaving badly and anti-social behaviour
To lose status - They 'invert' traditional middle class vaues - behaving goodly and social behaviour
To gain status - They 'invert' traditional working class vaues - behaving feminine and social behaviour

Matza - Some groups in society, not including subculutres, use a shared set of subterranean values, most people control deviant desires, use techniques of neutralisation
Matza - All groups in society, including subculutres, use a shared set of subterranean values, most people control deviant desires, use techniques of neutralisation
Collison - All groups in society, including subculutres, use a shared set of subterranean values, most people control deviant desires, use techniques of neutralisation

How can the young delinquents work out what middle class values are and invert them
How can the young delinquents work out what working class values are and invert them
How can the young criminals work out what police values are and invert them

Murray - First explain nature of being male in our society and what links masculinity to crime
Collison - First explain nature of being male in our society and what links masculinity to crime
Ansley - First explain nature of being male in our society and what links masculinity to crime