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Lecture notes Unit 4 SCLY4 - Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods; Stratification and Differentiation with Theory and Methods

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Detailed notes on the perspectives of Functionalist , Marxist and realist … etc on the functions of crime

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Functionalism
Key Terms
 Durkheim
 Mechanical solidarity
 Socialization by
families + religious leaders
 Social control
 Conformity
 Organic Solidarity
 Geographical
mobility
 Survival + lifestyle of
division of labor
 Reliance on
workforce
 Social consensus+ social
integration
 Achieved status + Self-
interest
 Amonie
 Social changes
 Social solidarity
 Boundary maintenance
 Davis
 Safety valve
 Cohen
 Warning sign
 Merton
 American Dream
 Conformity
 Innovation
 Ritualism
 Retreatism

o DURKHEIM
 Crime = caused by the way society is structured + results of society
changes
 Mechanical solidarity
 Pre-industrial society
 Sense of belongings to society = strong
 Successfully socialised into social norms & values by
families & religious leaders
 Community > individual
 Conformity = strengthened by the social control( I.e.
harsh punishment)
 Organic solidarity

,  Industrial society
 Mutual dependence comes from reliance on workforce
 Dependent on survival & lifestyleon division of labor
 Families & religion no longer create social solidarity
 Value consensus & social integration = weaken
 Achieved status — encourages self-interests /
individualistic
 Less obligations
o Leads to anomie (normlessness)
 Rules that control ppl. Behaviours = weaker
 Ppl.= more likely to challenge social norms & values = crime/ deviance


o DAVIS
o COHEN
o HIRSCHI



Strain Theory
o MERTON



Labelling Theory




Marxism
o Capitalism = criminogenic

Key Terms
 Gor
don
 Rati
onal
response
 Ansl
ey
 Alie
nation
 Expl
oitation

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