CCJS 105: Exam 2 questions with
verified answers passed
Anomie - correct answer ✔✔Durkheim's concept of normlessness, where human needs, goals,
and desires are unregulated and unbounded (usually society defines limits, bc bio doesn't)
Robert Merton - correct answer ✔✔Society consists of a culture and a social structure; in
America culture = unlimited opportunities, acquire wealth, social structure = access to means
not equally distributed
Anomie results from discrepancy btwn societal goals and available means
Modes of adaptation to Anomie
Modes of Adaptation to Anomie (Robert Merton) - correct answer ✔✔When accept goals and
accept means = conformity
When accept goals and reject means = innovation
When reject goals and accept means = ritualism
When reject goals and reject means = retreatism
When make new means and new goals = rebellion
Relative Deprivation - correct answer ✔✔How much money one has relative to those in their
reference group
ex: poor comparing to middle class, middle class comparing to upper class
2 Levels of Merton's Anomie (/Strain) Theory - correct answer ✔✔Merton presents both a
micro and a macro theory
society - macro
/\
,:) (: - micro
micro comparison: within US
macro comparison: btwn US and France
Institutional-Anomie Theory (IAT) - correct answer ✔✔Messner and Rosenfeld's theory based
on macro perspective of Merton's Anomie/ Strain Theory
Merton = cultural emphasis on ends over means cause crime at all levels
American Dream's 4 value commitments:
1. achievement orientation: value based on success
2. individualism: achieve success on own, others = competitors
3. universalism: no one exempt from competition
4. monetary rewards: economic success only one that counts
-> cultural emphasis on money affect an institutional balance of power
General Strain Theory - correct answer ✔✔Agnew's theory based on micro perspective of
Merton's Anomie/ Strain Theory
Multiple sources of strain (Merton: monetary success thru legitimate means)
People are pressured into crime as a result of strains or stressors
Crime = coping w, reducing, or escaping their strains and negative emotions
Sources of strain
Sources of Strain (General Strain Theory) - correct answer ✔✔Negative relationships with
others
1. Achievement of positively valued goals prevented
> monetary success blocked bc limited means
2. Positively valued stimuli removed
> lose job, break up w SO
, 3. negatively vlaued stimuli presented
> bullying, parental conflict
Strains Likely to Lead to Crime - correct answer ✔✔Agnew's General Strain Theory
When...
- intense, frequent, recent, and long lasting
- perceived as unjust
- lack of coping resources, problem-solving skills
- low self-control
- pressure or incentive for criminal coping
Social Disorganization Theory - correct answer ✔✔The feel of a place - what cues use to
determine whether in good neighborhood or not
Broken Windows
Broken Windows Policing - correct answer ✔✔James Q. Wilson and George Kelling (1982)
- disorder, fear of crime, and informal social control have a cyclical relationship (bc afraid of
crime, won't report crime/ suspicious behavior, decreasing social control and increased disorder
and crime)
Policies:
- community policing and order maintenance
- zero-tolerance (throwing everyone in jail for minor crimes) vs order maintenance (deterring
smaller crimes)
- case study: stop and frisk
Social Ecology - correct answer ✔✔University of Chicago sociology in the 1920s
- Park and Burgess
verified answers passed
Anomie - correct answer ✔✔Durkheim's concept of normlessness, where human needs, goals,
and desires are unregulated and unbounded (usually society defines limits, bc bio doesn't)
Robert Merton - correct answer ✔✔Society consists of a culture and a social structure; in
America culture = unlimited opportunities, acquire wealth, social structure = access to means
not equally distributed
Anomie results from discrepancy btwn societal goals and available means
Modes of adaptation to Anomie
Modes of Adaptation to Anomie (Robert Merton) - correct answer ✔✔When accept goals and
accept means = conformity
When accept goals and reject means = innovation
When reject goals and accept means = ritualism
When reject goals and reject means = retreatism
When make new means and new goals = rebellion
Relative Deprivation - correct answer ✔✔How much money one has relative to those in their
reference group
ex: poor comparing to middle class, middle class comparing to upper class
2 Levels of Merton's Anomie (/Strain) Theory - correct answer ✔✔Merton presents both a
micro and a macro theory
society - macro
/\
,:) (: - micro
micro comparison: within US
macro comparison: btwn US and France
Institutional-Anomie Theory (IAT) - correct answer ✔✔Messner and Rosenfeld's theory based
on macro perspective of Merton's Anomie/ Strain Theory
Merton = cultural emphasis on ends over means cause crime at all levels
American Dream's 4 value commitments:
1. achievement orientation: value based on success
2. individualism: achieve success on own, others = competitors
3. universalism: no one exempt from competition
4. monetary rewards: economic success only one that counts
-> cultural emphasis on money affect an institutional balance of power
General Strain Theory - correct answer ✔✔Agnew's theory based on micro perspective of
Merton's Anomie/ Strain Theory
Multiple sources of strain (Merton: monetary success thru legitimate means)
People are pressured into crime as a result of strains or stressors
Crime = coping w, reducing, or escaping their strains and negative emotions
Sources of strain
Sources of Strain (General Strain Theory) - correct answer ✔✔Negative relationships with
others
1. Achievement of positively valued goals prevented
> monetary success blocked bc limited means
2. Positively valued stimuli removed
> lose job, break up w SO
, 3. negatively vlaued stimuli presented
> bullying, parental conflict
Strains Likely to Lead to Crime - correct answer ✔✔Agnew's General Strain Theory
When...
- intense, frequent, recent, and long lasting
- perceived as unjust
- lack of coping resources, problem-solving skills
- low self-control
- pressure or incentive for criminal coping
Social Disorganization Theory - correct answer ✔✔The feel of a place - what cues use to
determine whether in good neighborhood or not
Broken Windows
Broken Windows Policing - correct answer ✔✔James Q. Wilson and George Kelling (1982)
- disorder, fear of crime, and informal social control have a cyclical relationship (bc afraid of
crime, won't report crime/ suspicious behavior, decreasing social control and increased disorder
and crime)
Policies:
- community policing and order maintenance
- zero-tolerance (throwing everyone in jail for minor crimes) vs order maintenance (deterring
smaller crimes)
- case study: stop and frisk
Social Ecology - correct answer ✔✔University of Chicago sociology in the 1920s
- Park and Burgess
