CRI205H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Counterculture, Subculture, Social Disorganization Theory
20 Jun 2020
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On the origin of the concept of deviant subculture in criminology- barmaki, r. (2016). Abstract: the key concept of deviant subculture first emerged from the works of the chicago. School of sociology (not from albert k. cohen: the notion allowed thomas to refine the problem of deviance, from psychological and physiological to normative disorganization. This includes a discussion of his theoretical perspective, especially his key notions of. The definition of the situation and social disorganization. it also includes a discussion of a number of influential theoretical explanations of youth delinquency of his time that had to discredit in order to make his theory acceptable . I will then discuss the influence of thomas on the criminological work of other key members of the school. Thomas first developed the idea into a concept that allowed for a normative approach to crime and delinquency. It later became the core of the notions that were used by the sociologists of the.
