AnomieStrain Theories

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Anomie/Strain Theories
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Emile Durkheim

• What holds society together?
• Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
• Anomie

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Robert K. Merton 1938

• Cultural system with approved values and goals
• Acceptable norms for achieving the goals
• Inability to acquire the goals results in strain

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Mertons 5 Individual Modes of Adaptation
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Differential OpportunityRichard Cloward Lloyd
Ohlin

• Types of Delinquent Subcultures
• 1. Criminal
• 2. Conflict
• 3. Retreatist

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General Strain TheoryRobert Agnew

• Strain Inducement
• Failure to achieve ones goals
• Removal of positively valued stimuli
• Presence of negatively valued stimuli