Midterm Review Flashcards
subcultures which cause trouble equally for criminals and non criminals are known as what?
- conflict subcultures
The sub cultural violence theory is the product of what theorists?
Wolfgang and Ferracuti
T/F - Cohan felt strongly that not all children sought social status
false
What theorist incorporated the concept of the middle class measuring rod?
Cohan
What theorist developed the last of the major subculture theories in 1967, also based on homicide data?
Wolfgang and Ferracuti
four deviant modes of adaptation are?
Innovation, Conformity, Rebellion, Retreatism
What can anomie be defined as?
the disjunction between the goals and means
Shoplifting, auto theft, and burglary would fit best into which mode of adaptation?
Innovation
if an individual accepts the goals of society, but rejects the means, Merton referred to their adaptation as what?
Innovation
What is the title of Durkheim’s book on anomie?
Suicide
as far as adapting to Merton’s strain theory and his theory of adaptation, if he says conformity, how are the goals and means handled?
accept both goals and means
as far as adapting to Merton’s strain theory and his theory of adaptation, if he says Rebellion, how are the goals and means handled?
reject both goals and means, but substitute new ones
as far as adapting to Merton’s strain theory and his theory of adaptation, if he says Retreatism, how are the goals and means handled?
Reject both means and goals, dropping out of society
as far as adapting to Merton’s strain theory and his theory of adaptation, if he says Ritualism, how are the goals and means handled?
rejects goals, accepts the means
Who is the major theorist on differential association theory?
Sutherland
