SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anomie, Relative Deprivation, Assault

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 325
• Professor: John Manzo

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7: social disorganization approaches and social structure theories. Explaining the criminality of individuals, two perspectives: consensus perspective [functionalism]- maintaining equilibrium through mutually adjective and supportive interaction of their principal institutions; effective maintenance of society is in the common interest of all of its members. People share similar values regarding right and wrong. Morality is universal, values shared bye everybody: conflict perspective- questions assumptions, arguing that criminal law reflects the interests of the groups that create and enforce those laws. Laws, sanctions, conducts all depend on powerful groups that influence legislation. Its not the majority, but the most powerful. Strain theory: the proposition that people feel strain when they are exposed to cultural goals they are unable to reach because they do not have access to culturally approved means of achieving those goals. 10-1 durkheim: the functions of crime and anomie. Anomie- happens when social solidarity or social cohesion is reduced.