CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reaction Formation, Richard Cloward, Industrial Revolution
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Where person is at & where society is at. Moves us into the domain of sociological accounts of crime. Strain theories can be variously consensual versus conflictual in their orientation towards society. Strain theories have had very different meanings over time. Division of labor in society (1893): as societies modernize, shared norms break down leading to a condition of anomie (normlessness) Anomie occurs in periods of rapid social change (i. e. , industrial revolution: places an times where anomie is high, criminality is higher. People don"t know how to behave: we have a tendency to define more things as deviant when experiencing anomie. There is a balance between functional and dysfunctional aspects of deviance. Suicide studies: protestants (greater individualism) versus catholics (greater solidarity) more suicide amongst protestants: according to bible suicide is a cardinal sin (catholic, recording bias. Adapted the anomie concept: a situation in which people"s goals what they want to achieve are beyond their means.
