CRJ 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Making Money, Social Disorganization Theory, Informal Social Control
20 Dec 2017
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Merton"s theory of anomie: two culture elements interact to produce anomic conditions, 1. Socially approved means of obtaining them: social adaptations, each person a concept of the goals of society and how to attain them, conformity. Conforming to society"s standards and demands: innovation. Devotes their entire life to a specific thing. The goals that society has placed don"t parallel my needs: retreatism. Survivalist; (home-schooling their kids) not in step with society: rebellion. Impact of anomie: anomie pervades american culture because capitalist culture promotes intense pressures for economic success or obsolete, institutional effects the dominance of economic concerns weakens informal social control exerted by the family church and school. Sources of strain: social sources of strain, media, peers, music industry telling us what status and worth is, community sources of strain. Coping with strain: strain and criminal careers, people with explosive tempers, overly sensitive or emotional, low tolerance for adversity and poor problem-solving skills are more crime prone.
