SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Puritans, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Kai T. Erikson

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Lomoar cpsd| 987298: responding to deviance clarifies moral boundaries , responding to serious deviance brings people together , deviance encourages social change . Puritans highly religious group : create deviance to declare moral boundaries. Deviance depends on the extend to which society provides the means (i. e. schooling, jobs) to achieve cultural goals (financial success) . Conformity pursuing cultural goals through approved means . Retreatism = rejection of both cultural goals and means drop out (alcoholic, street people) Rebellion = reject both cultural definition of success and conventional means of achieving it, and form a counterculture that supports alternatives. Crime also results from readily accessible illegitimate opportunity (cloward and. Deviance or conformity arises from the relative opportunity structure that frames a person"s life . Illegal opportunities foster the development of criminal subcultures . Subcultures that offer knowledge, skills and other resources needed to succeed in unconventional ways.