SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Predicable, Eucharist, Anomie

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Aspiration: ideal goals one should strive for. Expectations: what individuals think they can achieve. Disparity leads to frustration and deviance: structural strain theories (ie merton"s) place origins of motivation in social structure, much research has used microlevel variables (individuals. How one individual experiences strain and adapts compared to another individual experiencing and adapting to the same strain) instead of macrolevel (structure) variables. Using macro may generate more support for theory. Perception that results when the poor live near the rich neighbourhood. The larger the income gap, between the 10th and 90th percentiles, the greater the level of crime. Adapting to strain (merton: theory of deviance, not criminality. 5 modes of adaptions and there are 4 deviant. We accept goals and legal/traditional means ie most people in society. Innovation accept the goals but does not accept the means of achieving these goals ie not working hard or getting an education walter white from the movie breaking.