CRM 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Convenience Store, Frank Tannenbaum, Social Constructionism
4 Oct 2015
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Interested in social facts the effect of social structure on behavior. Big on suicide friend died and studies cross-cultural differences in suicide rates. Big 3 giants we stand on other major sociologists are weber & marx. Society of saints: we still create norms and you can still step out of boundaries built into society to have deviance. Humans are egoistic : society needs social control to regulate their wants and behaviors. Rapid change: creates anomie, increases deviance. Anomie: rejection of deviance as human nature. Dissonance between the culturally specified goals and the culturally available means to achieve goals. Access to means is stratified but goals are universal. Lower class experiences strain between goals and means, chooses illegitimate goals. Tension or strain of cultural goals and legitimate means. Rebellion (left-wing or right subculture) cultural goals: accept accept reject reject reject & replace reject & replace legit means: accept reject accept reject.
