subcultural theory

Question 1

what theorist talks about status frustration

Answer 1

Albert Cohen

Question 2

What is status frustration

Answer 2

when wc boys cannot achieve status through the mc culture of the education system therefore resulting in forming subcultures to achieve status by being delinquents

Question 3

what theorists talk about subculture responses

Answer 3

Clownard and Ohlin

Question 4

what are the 3 subculture responses

Answer 4

criminal subcultures
conflict subcultures
retreatist subcultures

Question 5

what is the criminal subculture

Answer 5

-often in inner city estates
-when youths learn and reform criminal skills often with criminal role models

Question 6

what is conflict subculture

Answer 6

-often in inner city estates
-difficult for criminal culture to develop as different gangs battle for control

Question 7

what is the retreatist subculture

Answer 7

-unsuccessful criminals often seen as double failures in which they then turn to a life of illegal drug use