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6. Merton looked at

  • cultural factors
  • structural factors
  • structural and cultural factors

7. Winning the game according to merton is

  • more important than playing by the rules
  • less important than playing by the rules
  • as important as playing by the rules

8. Cultural factors

  • encouragement
  • societies unequal opportunity structure
  • emphasis on success and weak emohasis on getting it via legit means
  • institutions put people down

9. Merson.... explain crime statistics

  • sometimes
  • does
  • doesn't

10. Conformity

  • reject legitimate means and goals ie. drug addicts
  • achieve means legitimately middle classed
  • give up trying to achieve goals but follow rules for own sake typical office workers
  • accept money as success but use theft or fraud to achieve it, pressure on those lower class

11. unable to achieve goals via socially legitimate goals

  • durkheim
  • is strain theories
  • cultural theories

12. the unequal class structure.... peoples attempts to reach goals so they achieve them legitimately

  • success
  • blocked
  • allowed

13. marxists argue that merton ignores

  • the power of the ruling class
  • the ruling class loves us
  • torture

14. Structural factors

  • societies unequal opportunity structure
  • the strong emphasis on success and weak emohasis on getting it via legit means
  • institutions put people down

15. Anomie according to Merton

  • is a strain or conflict
  • normlessness
  • normalness

16. Ruling class are challenged ie protest but crimilise those

  • show that they are posing threat not fair
  • not posing any threats

17. Merton there is a strain between the cultural that..... individuals to achieve and the..... structure of society alows them to achieve legitimately

  • Encourages + Institutional structure
  • legitimate opportinities and unlegitimate opportinities
  • Institutional structure + Encourages
  • fundermental + essential

18. Durkheim anomie and Merton .... be operationalised

  • cannot
  • can

19. Rebellion

  • individuals reject both goals and means ie. drug addicts
  • challenge existing goals and means create new ones ie. communism
  • go through legitimate means achieving goals

20. Innovation

  • reject existing values and goals replace them with new ones ie. communism
  • achieve means legitimately middle classed
  • accept money as success but use theft or fraud to achieve it, pressure on those lower class
  • reject legitimate means and goals ie. drug addicts