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6. Who said crime was an integral part of all healthy societies

  • Cicourel
  • Durkheim
  • Merton

7. term used by Merton to explain reactions to situations where socially approved goals were impossible for the majority of the population

  • status frustration
  • starin
  • focal concerns
  • delinquency

8. .... redefine society's goals and create new institutional means of pursuing their unique goals

  • innovators
  • rebels
  • retreatists
  • ritualists

9. an alternative, illegal way of life that certain groups in society have access to: term used by Cloward and Ohlin

  • focal concerns
  • legitimate opportunity structure
  • status frustration
  • gang

10. term first used by Durkhim to descrieb brake down of social expectations and behaviour

  • delinquency
  • gang
  • anomie
  • strain

11. ..... are those individuals who do not believe they can attain the culturally defined goal of accumulating financial waelth but continiue to do so though socites acceptabel cultural pathways

  • innovators
  • retreatists
  • ritualists
  • rebels

12. feeling of belonging to a larger entity e.g a society

  • social cohesion
  • subclture
  • focal concerns
  • anomie

13. ........are people who reject the goal of financial wealth as well as the means society deems to get rich

  • innovators
  • retreatists
  • ritualists
  • rebels

14. criminal or antisocial acts committed by young people

  • subculture
  • legitimate opportunity structure
  • delinquency
  • gang

15. Matza dissagress with the idea that people commit crime due to factors beyond their control

  • true
  • false

16. explanatiosn of crime and deviance focusing on the idea that those who are deviant hold different values to the majority

  • social cohesion
  • subcultural theories
  • strain
  • anomie

17. ... who accpt the culturally defined goal of financial success as well as the institutional means society defines appropriate to reach that goal ..... follow rules and believe doing so will pay off financially

  • rebels
  • conformists
  • ritualists
  • innovators

18. justification for our deviant or criminal actions

  • techniques of neutralisation
  • social cohesion
  • focal concerns
  • anomie

19. who crises Merton's view

  • Taylor
  • Young
  • Willis

20. a distinctive set of values that provides an alternative to those of the mainstream culture

  • subculture
  • subterranean values
  • subcultural theories
  • gang