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Mind Map by CarrotSticks, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by CarrotSticks
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FUNCTIONALIST
THEORY
- Durkheim
- based on value consensus;
society shares common
culture
- produces social
solidarity
- Socialisation -
internalise norms
& values
- Social control -
rewards and
punishments for
behaviour
- does not mean that
society creates crime in
advance to produce
social solidarity
- doesn't explain why
crime exists
- doesn't explain why
crime exists
- Socialisation -
internalise norms
& values
- produces social
solidarity
- based on value consensus;
society shares common
culture
- Inevitability of crime
- too much crime
destabalises society
- crime is normal - an
integral part of
society
- some people not socialised
effectively - prone to
deviate
- subcultures -
norms differ from
mainstream culture
- modern society - anomie
(normlessness)
- rules become weak
and less clear cut
- complex division of
labour - people
become different
- rules become weak
and less clear cut
- some people not socialised
effectively - prone to
deviate
- too little crime is repressing
and controlling - prevents free
will
- what is the
correct amount
of crime?
- what is the
correct amount
of crime?
- too much crime
destabalises society
- Positive functions
- Boundary
maintenance
- members become
united by condeming the
criminal as a group
- punishment is to reaffirm
shared rules and reinforce
social solidarity
- not functional
for the victim
- not functional
for the victim
- courtroom - reaffirms
law-abiding and discourages rile
breaking
- Cohen - media dramatises
evil; creates folk devils
- might cause the opposite
(isolation or conflict) e.g.
women staying indoors in
fear of attack
- members become
united by condeming the
criminal as a group
- Adaption and change
- all change starts wih
deviance
- people challenge
existing norms and
values which at first
appears as deviance
- e.g. religious visionaries with a new
message at first prosecuted but
vaues then become a new culture
- all change starts wih
deviance
- Davis
- Prostitution = safety valve for
the release of men's sexual
frustrations w/o threatening the
monogamous nuclear family
- not monogamous if the husband is
cheating on the wife w/ prostitutes?
- not monogamous if the husband is
cheating on the wife w/ prostitutes?
- Prostitution = safety valve for
the release of men's sexual
frustrations w/o threatening the
monogamous nuclear family
- Polsky
- Porn channels sexual
desires away from
alternatives
- Porn channels sexual
desires away from
alternatives
- Cohen
- deviance is a warning that an
institution is not functioning
well
- deviance is a warning that an
institution is not functioning
well
- doesn't explain the effects on
different groups/individuals -
only as a whole
- Boundary
maintenance
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