Social Strain Theory
Different Level of Social Strain Theory
Starting from Émile Durkheim
His focus on graphic, structural change.
Social Strain Theories have been advanced by Robert King Merton.
His idea of understanding criminal behavior on specifically juvenile delinquency.
Based on, how an individual could link between: cultural value goals and institutionalized.
Different categories of deviance as well as “Conformist” individuals.
Albert K. Cohen
His idea of simplifying technology, are used by Robert King Merton.
Focusing on derivations of the variable elements.
Can be easily understood even by a researcher, and also by individual from the public, which is the idea of understanding criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency. …show more content…
Robert Agnew asserted that strain theory could be central in explaining crime and deviance, but that it needed revision so that it was not tied to social class or cultural variables, but re-focused on norms.
To this end, Agnew proposed a general strain theory that is neither structural nor interpersonal but rather individual and emotional, paying special attention to an individual's immediate social environment.
He argued that an individual's actual or anticipated failure to achieve positively valued goals, actual or anticipated removal of positively valued stimuli, and actual or anticipated presentation of negative stimuli all result in strain.
Anger and frustration confirm negative relationships.
The resulting behavior patterns will often be characterized by more than their share of unilateral action because an individual will have a natural desire to avoid unpleasant rejections, and these unilateral actions (especially when antisocial) will further contribute to an individual's alienation from society.
If particular rejections are generalized into feelings that the environment is unsupportive, more strongly negative emotions may motivate the individual to engage in …show more content…
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Assignment:
Evaluate the Agnew’s theory. (Group 4-5)
Scope
Consistency
Stability
Break time/Group work (14:00-39:00 minutes)
Note:
Next week, Continuous of Agnew’s theory.
Talking about the Agnew’s theory evaluation
Keyword for funding a program - Youth
Sociological theory that attempts to explain why society functions the way it does by focusing on the relationships between the various social institutions that make up society. Government
Law
Education
Religion
Symbolic interactionism
Tends to focus on the language and symbols that help us give meaning to the experiences in our life.
They notice that as we interact with the world, we change the way we behave based on the meaning we give social interactions.
We spend time thinking about what we will do next and adjust our approach depending on how we believe others perceive us.
One of the key figure of Chicago school.
Park (Darwin’s theory - The development)
The operationalizations of strain are: economic aspiration/expectation disparities,
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