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Sociology 2 deviance
Social disorganization, functionalism, anomie
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
04/19/2011

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Albert Cohen
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Argues that Mertons theory is too individualistic. Meaning like Cloward and Ohlin, that people use their association to determine their deviant responses.
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Subcultures
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of people with blocked aspirations- criminal, conflict, and retreatist subcultures.
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Lloyd Ohlin
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Argued that the deviant behavior chosen is learned in interaction with others.
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Double failure
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People who are unable to reach legitimate goals and are unable to employ illegitimate means because of internalized prohobition.
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Richard Cloward
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found that deviant opportunity, like conventional opportunity, also varied, and people could be double failures.
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High Aspirations
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Juveniles with high aspirations were less delinquent than those with low aspirations. 
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No Correlation
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Hirchi rejects this correlation because his own study of deviance amon Richmond, CA teens show no correlation.
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