Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Functionalist explanations of deviant
subcultures
- Merton
- Strain Theory
- Conformity
- Innovation
- Retreatism
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Youths that may join criminal subcultures may be unable to
achieve valued goals such as success through traditional
roots. They may become innovative and obtain them through
illegal behaviour
- Criminal Subcultures
- Conflict subcultures
- Retreatist subcultures
- Cohen
- Status Frustrations
- Deliquent males were motivated by status deprivation and status frustration
and they feel they lack status in society
- They develop an alternative set of values in which status is awarded for different behaviour
- Delinquency is a collective rather than a individual response
- Miller
- Focal Concerns
- Trouble, toughness, excitement, fate, autonomy
- New Right
- Murray
- Entire underclass can be seen as a deviant subculture
- Evaluation
- Very male focused
- No imperical evidence