SOC 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organized Crime, Extortion, Counterculture

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 149
• Professor: Jennifer Simmers

Document Summary

1 norms ( instability due to lack of standards) Economy went thru depression so people turned to drinking. Condition in which people are unsure of how to behave bc of absent confusing social. Rk merton; cultural social explanation for deviant behavior known as . Strain theory: individuals achieve goals. ( society puts pressure on individuals to achieve socially accepted goals (such as the american dream) though they lack the means, this leads to cause some individuals innovate means to achieve goals. He argued that american fixation on economic success pathological ,materialism . Ritualism accept the means but reject goals. Rebellion- rejecting means and goals looking to replace them with new m and g. Which may lead the individuals to commit crimes. ) What is learned depends on frequency, intensity and duration (shared meaning within community) Subcultures and social disorganization: culture is source of pattern of human conduct. Shaw and mckay studied patterns of criminality in chicago in 1920 to 1930.