Zusammenfassung der Ressource
deviant subculture explanations
- Functionalist-based
- Merton
- Cohen
- application to gang violence in
terms of status
- Cloward & Ohlin
- Miller
- challenges consensus argues wc
have different set of values
- Evaluative comments
- working class subcultures are
subject to regional, ethnic and
other variations - not all wc are
the same
- Cohen argues wc boys are
reacting to failure, Miller
disagrees
- based on police stats as 'typical criminal'
these can be challenged by other
sociologists eg interactionists by looking at
labelling
- New Right
- Murray
- dependency, laziness and
criminality, the underclass
see welfare as life choice and
youth anti-school and gangs
- high rates of crime
among males due to
lack of role model.
Single parent families
indicator of
criminality
- Marxist
- Neo-Marxist
- CCCS
- Clarke & Hebdige
- Left Realists
- Lea & Young
- Power inequality class conflict
- Evaluation
- Feminists
- Postmodernism
- Interactionist
- Becker
- Ciccourel negotiated justice
- Media