HIUS 3281 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Begging, Broken Windows Theory, Ernest Burgess
24 Oct 2016
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Strain as the failure to achieve positively valued goals: as the disjunction between aspirations and expectations/actual achievements, as the disjunction between expectations and actual achievements, as the disjunction between just/fair outcomes and actual outcomes. Strain as the removal of positively valued stimuli from the individual. Strain as the presentation of negative stimuli. Anger increases the individual"s level of felt injury, creates a desire for retaliation/revenge, energizes the individual for action, and lowers inhibitions, in part because individuals believe that others will feel their aggression is justified agnew. Cognitive coping strategies: ignore/minimize the importance of adversity, maximize positive outcomes/minimize negative ones, accept responsibility for adversity. Behavioral coping strategies: maximizing positive outcome/minimizing negative ones, vengeful behavior. Anticipated strain: the individual"s expectation that his or her current strains will continue into the future or that new strains will be experienced . A condition in which locality has no consistent value system and where social institutions are weak or nonexistent.
