SOCI 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Counterculture, Individualism
22 Mar 2018
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Critique : hard to measure a unrestrained pursuit of money especially across societal differences. Main argument : individuals are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals (eg monetary success, middle class-status) through legitimate (legal) means groups/individuals pressured into crime. Only some strains will lead to crime and only for some individuals/groups. Main idea : in us, goals > means. Monetary goal transcends class lines : the american stress on nancial success and ambitiousness for all thus invites exaggerated anxieties, hostilities, neuroses, and antisocial behavior . May explain link between crime & poverty in us. Antisocial behavior results from (1) conventional values of money & (2) class structure that blocks modes of adaptation. Cohen delinquent boys : the culture of gangs: in uenced by sutherland & merton : follows sutherland"s interest in delinquent subcultures and asks how can we explain the origin and content of delinquent subcultures? . Draws on merton to answer: how subcultures develop :
