AJ 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education, Social Stratification, Anomie

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 010
• Professor: gallon

Document Summary

Crime and deviance are products of social ecology. Crime and deviance are a result of strain. Merton conceptualized anomie as a socially structured contradiction between normative aspirations and the lack of available means for legitimately attaining valued cultural goals pfohl 1994 pg 262. The structural-functional paradigm is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. It asserts that our lives are guided by social structures (relatively stable patterns of social behaviours over time). Society is thought of as a system or a whole. The major hypothesis is sociological functionalism is that recurrent social processes serve that function of maintaining a social system. With the larger whole as the unit of analyses, a social pattern is studied in terms of its functions of the positive part it plays in the adaptation and persistence of the system" traub and little (1999)