CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Subculture
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Crime is a result of negative affective emotions: failure to achieve goals, achievements not meeting expectations, loss of positive things (divorce, negative stimuli (abuse, crime (violence) results from: A group that is loosely a part of the dominant culture but maintains a unique set of values, beliefs, and traditions resistant and oppositional to dominant society features include the needs for excitement, trouble, smartness, fate, and personal autonomy (miller) the value orientations of lower class cultures: focal concerns: The formation of delinquent subcultures: they can get attention by breaking the rules, they adopt their own rules in opposition of the middle class, gang members engage in non utilitarian, malicious, and negativistic , reaction formation: behaviour standards that seem impossible to achieve, as in a boy cannot get into college, he considers it a waste of time (cohen) the response of rejecting goals and.
