Subcultural Theories Flashcards
What are delinquent subculture groups?
Groups whose norms and values are deviant
Who is Albert Cohen? What is status frustration?
He agrees with Merton that deviance results from lower classes failure to achieve by legitimate means.
Cohen sees subcultural deviance as a group response o failure,not just an individual one. He focuses on none utilitarian crimes such as vandalism
Who are cloward and ohlin? What are the three subcultures?
Noted that differen neighbourhoods give rise to different types of deviant subcultures
Criminal subcultures
Conflict subcultures
Retreatist subcultures
What is a criminal subculture?
These arise in areas where there is a long standing professional criminal network
What are conflict subcultures?
These arise where the only criminal opportunities are within street gangs
What are retreatist subcultures?
These are made up of dropouts who have failed in both the legitimate and illegitimate opportunities structure
