CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socalled, Poverty Threshold, Relative Deprivation
19 Apr 2015
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Crim 104 lecture #3 contemporary versions of anomie-strain. Starting with saint-simon: saint-simon emphasized importance of moral order, one of first to view society as functional mechanism, greater than its component parts. Invoked an organic analogy of society: used terms like elements, organs and tissues to describe society. Even crime serves a function: durkheim said a certain amount of crime was normal found in all societies, crime helped to define/shape collective consciousness, crime and punishment maintained the society"s fundamental values and preserved its moral order. Talcott parsons: started the concept of structural functionalism , pre-eminent sociological paradigm through 1940s and 1950s, into 1960s, the structure of social action (1937), the social system (1951). Parson"s four functional imperatives: adaptation = society had to adapt to its environment to obtain certain resources necessary for its survival, goal attainment = society had to define/prioritize its goals, and then strive to achieve them.
