SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Environmental Design
7 Jan 2020
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3 types of norms; violations and punishment for norm breaking is dependent on type. Local or group (e. g. , family norms) - violations will only impact relationships in the local group. Subcultural- violations may affect most of one"s day-to-day interactions. Societal - violations may involve formal social control agencies, such as criminal justice. Anomie - unfilled goals and expectations due to goals/ means gap. Goals / means gap - taught the goals for success, but not the means of achieving these goals. Strain - experience strain when we try to achieve society"s goals but cannot do so. Innovator - accepts goals, but finds new means. Ritualist - not lawbreakers, but realize they cannot obtain some of the things valued in society live traditional lives but give up trying to achieve wealth and other societal goals. Retreatism - do not accept either goals and means: give up (withdraw, retreat from society)
