CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Alternative Culture, Anomie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Inequality is defined as normal and inevitable: anomie is defined as pathological state of organic society, crime is normal and inevitable (cid:1866)(cid:1857)(cid:1869)(cid:1873)(cid:1864)(cid:1872) (cid:1871)(cid:1872)(cid:1870)(cid:1866) Strain theories: merton, crime = adaptation, normal response to abnormal conditions, beyond community environment, causal force = social structure. Social pressures: merton rejects social need for deviance, certain groups subjected to specific pressures. Individuals are basically normal, but: rates of deviance are not consistent across all classes, highest rates were consistently found in the lower class. Normative order: cultural or structural order, sets culturally accepted goals that motivate social behaviour. Institutional means: made available to, and approved by, the social structure for achieving these goals. Anomie is a lack of fit between goals and means. Social members accept both cultural goals and cultural means (consensus: goal is wealth through approved middle-class values and methods, accept legitimatized means to achieve goals, poses no particular problem to society.