CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Masculinity
17 Mar 2018
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Excessive emphasis on the accumulation of wealth as cultural goals. Unequal access to institutional means to reach cultural goal. Social institutions unable to regulate/integrate cultural goals and institutional means. 5 ways in which society adapts to strain. Teens are not worried by accumulation of wealth. Their sources of strain are more immediate (appearance, popularity, school, etc. ) Strain experienced by teens can be conceptualized as. Being kicked off the high school football team) Negative affect, the frustration-aggression hypothesis, cognitive and behavioural coping. Failure of social institutions to integrate and regulate the pursuit of goals of capital society. Merton"s anomie strain theory + sutherlands differential association theory. Emergence of subcultural theories in the 1950s and. Lower class males have similar aspirations to middle and upper class peers middle and upper class peers. Dropped out of school and formed delinquent gangs. Creation of new normative values and redefine meaning od social status. Status associated with toughness or willingness to violate conventional norms.
