SOCI-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Labeling Theory, Anomie, Conflict Theories
20 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
List theories
Who-what
Rank importance
One sentence- why do we commit crime according to each
Paragraph question
Details on top ranked
Strain
Merton- cultural goals and institutional norms
The gap between the goals and the means
Messner and rossenfeld- american dream- can always have bigger, better,
more- rules are just suggestions
Can never have enough, can always have more
Durkheim- anomie rises during social change; every society needs a quota of
devianace
Cullen- marginal opportunity one negative environment effects others
Agnew- General strain- youth commit crime when unavoidable
Cloward- illegitimate means-gangs
Anderson- code of the street- kind of changing the focus of the goals, getting
respect in other ways violence weighs into that
List and describe merton's five adaptations of strain theory
Why would a corporate company commit fraud versus why would a youth join a gang
and how these similar phenomena?
Interactionalist-
According to labelling theory, what role does societal reaction play in secondary
deviance, and how does COSA's goal exemplify this?
Conflict theory
How does marxist theory explani crime in terms or powerless and powerful?
Classical theory-
Studying for midterm
Monday, March 5, 2018
9:06 AM
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