Deviance can have positive benefits.
Durkheim argues deviance is not critical to society.
Crime is normal.
Structural Functionalism
Crime allows change to shape the form of society.
Blocked Opportunity Structure
What are two important elements of social and cultural structures?
Anomie
What are three culture axioms?
What are the types of individual adaptation?
Conformity
Innovation
Ritualism
Retreatism
Rebellion
Differential Association
Criminal behavior is learned.
Criminal behavior is not learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication.
The principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups.
What does learning include when criminal behavior is learned?
The specific direction of motives and drives is learned from _____.
How does a person becomes delinquent?
Does differential associations vary?
Criminal behavior can be learned through the process of imitation.
Control theory
What are the elements of the bond?
Attachment
Commitment
Involvement
Belief
Feminist Theory
Girls and delinquency
Constructionist Perspective
Advantages of studying social problems
What theories emerged the constructionist approach?
