deviant subculture explanations

deviant subculture explanations

1. 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

2. 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

3. Marxist

   • Neo-Marxist
     • CCCS
       • Clarke & Hebdige
     • Left Realists
       • Lea & Young
   • Power inequality class conflict
   • Evaluation
     • Feminists
     • Postmodernism

4. Interactionist

   • Becker
   • Ciccourel negotiated justice
   • Media