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1
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What 3 things did Cohen say about working class youths?

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They internalise mainstream norms and values through socialisation

They face blocked opportunities

They suffer from status frustration

2
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What is status frustration?

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The realisation that you cannot achieve middle class terms

3
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Why do working class youths completely reject mainstream norms and values?

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Because of the status frustration that they feel

4
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What do delinquent subcultures provide?

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An alternative means of gaining status and striking back at an unequal social system

5
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Why did Cloward and Ohlin criticise cohens ideas?

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Cohen failed to explain the variety of subcultural forms that erm she put of the social structure

6
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Criminal subcultures

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Emerge when working class youths have access to adult criminal networks

7
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Conflict subcultures

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Emerge when working class youths lack access to adult criminal networks but live in an environment which values defence of territory and violence

8
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Retreatist subcultures

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Emerge when working class youths are denied access to criminal or conflict subcultures

9
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Why did miller reject cohen and cloward and ohlins ideas?

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He criticised the idea that delinquent subcultures emerge as a reaction to anomie

10
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What did miller believe about lower class youths?

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They never accept mainstream norms and values in the first place

11
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How does miller see lower class youths as being socialised?

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Into a set of lower class values or focal concerns

12
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Strengths on subcultural theories?

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Served to generate a great deal of subsequent research

Willis - deviant anti-school cultures are the product of working class youths

Morrison - suggests that blocked opportunities lead to feelings of resentment and revenge

13
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Weaknesses of subcultural theories?

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Too readily accept official statistics - don’t explain white collar crime

Empey - delinquent boys cross between the distinct subcultural divides which C&O identify

Matza - over estimate juvenile delinquency