SOC 248 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hutu, Amartya Sen, Muammar Gaddafi

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Rebekah Burroway

Document Summary

Crime rate tends to increase as poverty goes up. He believes that strain occurs when a person cannot obtain the things that they deem as valuable. His theory focuses on two main points: retreating or innovating. Retreat means to give up altogether and innovating means to try to use the talents that you have in the informal sector. The increase dependence on the drug has led to an increased in power and violence. For instance, the drug, cocaine, has increased in the rate of assassination and more violence. Britain is one of the biggest trade power and it is very interested in trading with china. Because opium is very addictive, it became a valuable commodity to the chinese. It was very easy to stop the chinese. The british justified the opium war of 1838-1842 because china was interfering in the international affairs. Britain won because of an advanced in technology.