14 Apr 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
ANOMIE AND SOCIAL STRAIN THEORY
EMILE DURKHEIM
STRIKING A BLOW FOR SOCIOLOGY
• Founded sociology
• Wrote The Rules of Sociological Method
• Wrote “Sociology and Social Facts”
• Instrumental in establishing and contributing
THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL BACKDROP
• Durkheim was born in 1858
• After the French Revolution of 1789
• Time of The Industrial Revolution
THE INFLUENCE OF SAINT-SIMON
• Saint-Simon
• Emphasized the “positive”
• One of first to view society as functional mechanism
EMILE DURKHEIM IN A NUTSHELL
• Durkheim
• Committed to preserving
• Regarded society
• Society as an entity
LAW AND THE MORAL ORDER
• Moral order
• Influence of Saint-Simon
• For Durkheim, law was reflection
• Moral order or moral consensus
SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
• MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY
• ORGANIC SOLIDARITY
INTEGRATION AND REGULATION
• INTEGRATION
• REGULATION
INTO THE BREACH
DEFINITION OF “ANOMIE”.
THE NORMAL AND THE PATHOLOGICAL
• Crime was pathological
• A certain amount of crime
• Crime helps to define
• Crime and punishment
WHO DURKHEIM INFLUENCED
• Merton
• Clinard
• Cloward and Ohlin
• Matza
• Kai Erikson
DURKHEIM’S INFLUENCES cont.
UNCLE “BOB”
STRIKING YET ANOTHER BLOW FOR SOCIOLOGY
• Merton
• Published “Social Structure and Anomie”
ANOMIE AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
• Used term “anomie”
• Said that anomie takes hold in societies
• Said that anomie and deviance
THE ROARING TWENTIES
BUY LOW, SELL HIGH
BLACK TUESDAY
THE DIRTY THIRTIES