SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Black Kids, Causses, Ahold
19 Mar 2013
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University of chicago, and there are two strains that developed there. Contribution: focus on the origins of delinquent sub culture. And in so doing he wanted to examine how culture functioned and served to solve problems forkids. If you are in a position of strain. Cohen really talked about how culture can serve as a way of solving problems for delinquent kids. As downes and rock point out, some cultures borrow elements from larger cultlures and re work them into distinct forms. Reading for this week goes into a lot ode tail about different people who wrote aboutculture/rural culture (ie. miller: lower class delinquent youth) even put in label theory (she don"t like) save label theory for next week He says lok it, the lower class embraces the middle class success ethic. As merton did, cohen rejected that the lower class had a culture which was different from the middle or upper class.
