01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Noxious Stimulus

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:222
• Professor: Covington

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In tests of strain theory, strain is measured as: high aspirations/low expectations, for e. g. , someone who has. Low educ/occup expectations ------> j. d: applies to all social classes & to males and females, still, is high aspirations/low expectations a good measure of strain, another problem for the strain theorist, cohen, is his claim that. If denied autonomy, popularity ------> crime, jd: uc/mc/li juveniles can all be strained. Agnew"s general strain theory: recasts macro level anomie theory as micro level strain theory, anomie = characteristic of a society explains why lc has high crime rates, strain = feelings like frustration, anxiety & explains why some individuals. Identifies 4 sources of strain: more likely to do crime: strain caused by the failure to achieve positively valued goals (ex. Merton"s strain; gap between aspirations & expectations: gap between expectations & achievements, removal of positively valued relationships or objects, presentation of noxious stimuli (ex.