SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Sociological Review, Stanford Prison Experiment, Anomie
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102-115: strain theory, stanford prison experiment, film clip: the experiment. American functionalist, professor of sociology (columbia university) (cid:862) o(cid:272)ial tru(cid:272)ture a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)o(cid:373)ie(cid:863), american sociological review, 3:5, october 1938, pp. Strain theory: the incongruity between culturally valued material ends and the available means to achieve them creates incentives for engaging in deviant behaviour. Social cultures teach people to put value on material success. But because there are not enough opportunities for everyone in society, the system itself becomes strained (the strain theory), and how people respond to not living the ideal social cultural life. Innovators: people who identify with the goal, they find their own means to make money. Retreatants: reject the goals and the means, reject the system and the ideals of the system (they retreat or withdraw from society), could be self-sustaining outside of the mainstream society (hippies/monks/nuns) Mock prison in the basement of the psychology building.
