SOC 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England
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11:49 am: anomie comes from strain, assumptions of anomie, consensus thinking, we all believe the same cult. Structural barriers: money, disparities in neighborhoods, networking. Lead to lack of education: anomie theory, robert merton. Social structure and anomie (1938: emphasizes imbalance between goals and means, poverty barriers. Fewer access to resources due to lack of money: need to work vs go to school. Focus on goal not the means to get there. If no realistic legitimate means, crime will occur to get the american dream: responses, conformists, accept goals and legit means, ex: college students, current employees. Innovation: accept goals, but devise illegitimate means, ex: drug dealers, ritualism, do not accept goals; but accept means (cid:862)just go through (cid:373)otio(cid:374)s(cid:863) Dream: general strain theory, robert agnew, expand definition of goals, not just money, achieving goals does matter, focus on negative relationships, not having good relationships with people increases crime, negative strains.
