SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard Cloward, Altruistic Suicide, Police Misconduct
14 Apr 2016
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Altruistic suicide where someone will sacriice themselves for the group because their closely bond. Egotistic suicide very weak ties to the group, the group is unable to prevent their suicide. Anomic suicide normlessness, societal norms are so normal, they reject the norms and end up killing themselves. Fatalistic suicide someone is bond with a group, various reasons they kill themselves: durkhiem modes of adaptation. Pathological and the normal when it comes to crime. Its normal for people to break the law. Criminality that doesn"t exceed the capability of the legal and social structures to contain it. Pathological frequency of criminal behaviour that society cannot contain it. Cohen believes that society encourages people to develop status but it"s diicult for lower class people to develop that status, and because they cannot meet it makes them engage in illegal or deviant behaviour.
