SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anomie, Pirkei Avot, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Merton"s strain theory: conformity to societies goals, you must work ahrd to get the result, most of us do this but we are not criminals, most common mode. Innovator: accept the goal but not the means (way of getting it, wants gain but in the criminal way, most common for deviant, ex. Social control theories: something in society inhibits our criminal behavior, we al lhave potential fro crime but social controls block it, when weakend we get deviance. Social control theory: hirshi (social control/bonding, social bonds = degree to which a person is integrated into the values of community, 2 innerc ontrols, commitments, beliefs, 2 outer controls, attachment involvement. Issues: is micro theory (cant explain why chicago has higher crime rates then. Relative deprivatin: cabrini green, chicago, poor live near rich, when poor see rich and want what they have = relative deprivation which casues strain and thus deviance, high crime in areas with big gap in income (social standing)