Those at the top of the social structure could conform to the goals of the AD and the legitimate mans of achieveing them
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What is Merton's innovation response?
Conformed to the goals of the AD but used illegitimate means to achieve them, e.g gangsterism
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What is Merton's ritualism response?
Give up on the goals of the AD, and just go through the legitimate means of achieveing them, e.g an office job
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What is Merton's retreatism response?
Gave up on the goals of the AD and the legitimate means of achieveing them, becoming drop outs, drug addicts, alcoholics etc
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What is Mertons rebellion response?
Reject both the goals of AD and the legitimate means of achieveing them, so they create their own goals and means.
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What are possible critisisms of Merton's strain theory?
Why don't all w/c commit crime? Doesn't consider the impact of gender/ ethnicity/ class/ sexuality?
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What does Cohen suggest about w/c youths?
They originally accept the goals of society, but their awareness of their assumed inability to academically achieve leads them to reject the goals (status frustration)
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What is the term used to describe how youths reject the goals of society due to being told they won't succeed?
Status Frustration
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What does Cohen suggest happens after Status Frustration?
The goals are replaced by new deviant goals, creating a delinquent subculture. They do this as a response to restricted opportunity. (reaction formation)
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What is the term used to describe how youths form new delinquent goals and carry out delinquent conduct to deliberately go against the norms of society?
Reaction Formation
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What do Cloward & Ohlin mean by 'double-failures'?
Some youngsters reject societies goals, go to join a gang/subculture, but then get rejected by the gang. These people often retreat to a life of violence an drugs
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What do Cloward & Ohlin argue are the 3 types of subculture that youths go through?
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