SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Richard Cloward, Lloyd Ohlin, General Strain Theory
6 Dec 2013
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Institutional goals vs legitimate means: emile durkheim. Anomie: without norms, components looking at absence of norms or too much norms and. Anomie tied to social organization: tied to situations of high prosperity and material goals. People pursue unattainable goals, with rapid social change and increased prosperity have these issues. Today"s credit card society: getting things you want now opposed to buying something yet. Crime is a function of society: robert k merton: strain and anomie theory. Crime due to: inability to achieve goals. Merton"s focused: the disjunction between goals and means. Something within society that tell us that we need these goals but ability to satisfied these goals are lofty. The american dream by product of our society. So focused on materialism forget morality and engage in different types of crime. People who are committing crime are majority from moral classes; lack of opportunity and when see this they have strain and frustration.
