SOC-3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anomie, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Individualism
31 Aug 2016
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Emile durkheim: the division of labor in society. Anomie = normlessness: assumptions of anomie/strain theories: Law reflects the values of society (volkgeist: the will of the people ). Delinquency is motivated (not natural): merton"s anomie theory (a macro-level explanation of crime) Macro: impact of societies, states, and regions. Meso: impact of neighborhood, street, and city. Goals legitimate means: education, job, etc. Goals anomie stress illegitimate means/modes success. / x (students) (drug dealers) (worker with no aspirations) (drug addicts) (amish) Macro-level studies: is social class related to delinquency: little consistent evidence of a social class-delinquency link. Micro-level studies: how should anomie be measured: difference between aspirations and expectations, some empirical support (but less than other theories, differential opportunity theory (do not need for test) Legitimate and illegitimate opportunities vary according to the structure of the neighborhood. Neighborhood structure is key to the type of subculture that develops:
