subcultural theory

Question 1

what group of people did a cohen research and what did he look into

Answer 1

working class boys 
how they faced starin in the mainstream middle class culture of the education system

Question 2

what is status frustration

Answer 2

when you turn to others in the same situation and form a subculture with alternative values rejecting the goals of the school

Question 3

what did cloward and ohlin argue

Answer 3

that not all subcultures respond to their failure in the same way

Question 4

what were the 3 forms of subcultures that existed according to cloward and ohlin

Answer 4

1- criminal subcultures
2- conflict subcultures
3- retreatist subcultures

Question 5

characteristics of criminal subcultures

Answer 5

exist in the inner city where criminal subculture is dominant
easy for the youth to learn criminal skils
they have criminal role models to look up to

Question 6

characteristics of a conflict subculture

Answer 6

emerge in inner cities that suffer from high social turnover
difficult for criminal culture due to different gangs batteling with each other for over all control

Question 7

characteristics of a retreatist subculture

Answer 7

youths who want to be criminals but dont always success

they then become double failures and turn to drug use