CRIM 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ideal Class Group, Anomie
13 Sep 2016
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The best societies have a combo of integration/regulation: integration: connectedness, regulation: laws. More interested in persistent social class inequality: anomie, born/die in same class. Two roles of society: culturally de ned goals, culturally de ned regulations about means to achieve these goals. Types of society: (group level theory: why some societies have more crimes than others, goals you should have, means to achieve, emphasis on goals over means. Means become goals (extreme emphasis on means) Intermediate society: balance between means and goals. Why some members are more likely to engage in crime: strain, especially interested in lower class. Group of people whose dreams do not match reality- constantly told could make it wildly rich, but can"t. Strain is created as it doesn"t happen. Us sets huge goals, lower class cannot achieve by institutional means. Strain of not being able to be successful, merton says people need to be able to deal with it in some way.
