SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Illegal Drug Trade, Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Sarah Clancy

Document Summary

Local or group (family norms) violations will only impact relationships in the local group. Subculture violations may affect most of one"s day-to-day interactions. Societal violations may involve formal social control agencies, such as criminal justice. Robert merton (1968: anomie unfulfilled goals and expectations due to goals/means gap (ibid; see also. Rohall et al. , 2014: goals/means gap taught the goals for success, but not the means of achieving these goals (ibid, strain experience strain when we try to achieve society"s goals but cannot do so (ibid) Robert merton (1968)"s model of adaption: conformists accept both goals and means. External forces such as low socio-economic status, lack of legitimate opportunities, etc. Internal forces such as motivation, feelings of inferiority, etc. Weakened forms of inner containment such as reduced self-concept, etc. Weakened forms of outer containment such as rules and regulations, etc. Deviance: social and self-control theories nyes" family ties (1958)