HREQ 1800 Lecture 15: justice for children lecture notes - Copy (2)
29 Jul 2019
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The early subcultural approaches to delinquency were reformulations of merton"s strain perspectives. Specifically, these perspectives reflect merton"s view that the larger society maintains generally accepted goals of success, wealth and education, and that the means for acquiring these goals are not distributed equally among social classes. With an emphasis on the origins and development of delinquency, subcultural approaches argued that lower class youths who lack access to appropriate means develop unique cultural values in supportive groups of similarly circumstanced others. Informed by merton"s contributions, albert cohent, in delinquent boys, shifts deviance away from the character of the actor to the character of the act. According to cohen, subcultural group formations are the result of successful attempts to collectively overcome the problems of conformity to existing norms. His study commences with a review of how the dominant cultural order structures social existence.
