SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Meritocracy, Class Conflict, Carjacking
Document Summary
Subculture and deviance key components of culture from a sociological perspective: values and norms values usually expressed in norms culture usually has more norms and core values they guide behaviour and value judgement. Subculture a part of broader culture distinctive culture within a culture. May be conducive to deviance key components of subculture: 1. focal concerns expressed by, vocabularies of motives, lingo/symbols/behaviour, 2. continuous interaction required to keep subculture alive. Social failure subculture theories can be divided into 3 categories based on their core arguments the values in what we call mainstream culture" are middle class values and they promote: competition, individualism, mobility, Cultural deficit role of culture as a motivator there is frustrated mobility thus, more likely to form subculture: 3. Marxism proletariat alienation of the working class results in frustration and thus the formation of subculture subculture is seen as a consequence of capitalist and middle class values.
