SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reaction Formation, Anomie, Conflict Theories

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

Document Summary

Societies inadvertently place pressure (or, strain) on individuals that can. Anomie is caused by the discrepancy between culturally defined lead to rule-breaking behaviour goals and the institutionalized means available to achieve these goals. Working class youth have fewer opportunities to achieve culturally. As a result of being unable to compete, lower class youth experience approved goals than middle class values ( middle class measuring rod ) status frustration and turn to delinquency and a delinquent subculture. The question why do they do it?" is simply not the question the theory is designed to answer. The question is why don"t we do it?" there is much evidence that we would if we dared. Internal and external pushes and pulls will produce delinquency unless. Two forms of containment: they are countered (or, contained) Most people are risk takers but it is their bonds to society that help them. Inner and outer controls diagram (on slideshow) not break the law.