Develop in slum areas where there is a hierarchy of criminal opportunity.
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What are conflict subcultures?
Formed in unstable areas where people moving in an out is high.
Youth turn to violence and form gangs to defend their areas.
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What are retreatist subcultures?
Formed by youths who fail to achieve in legitimate or illegitimate terms. They will retreat from society’s values, often turning to addiction or petty crime.
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What does Millet say about working class boys?
Working-class boys do not even try to gain academic success- as that is a middle-class value.
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What are focal concerns?
Millet says focal concerns are the different values of working class boys e.g. being tough and macho.
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Which other functionalist does Millet contradict?
Cohen
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What does Cohen say teenage boys desire?
Status, which means respect in the eyes of peers.
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What does Cohen recognise within a subculture?
The deviant means to achieve society’s goals often become the accepted norm.
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What does Cohen claim working class boys are aware of?
Mainstream values, such as success at school, knowing that you can get good status through these things.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What did Cloward and Ohlin say about blocked opportunities?
Back
Just as some people experience ‘blocked opportunities’ to get goals through legal means, not everyone can achieve things through illegal means.
Card 3
Front
What three deviant subcultures did Cloward and Ohlin outline?
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