Exam 10: Strain Theories

Which of the following focuses on the inherent divisions of societies based on social inequality and the way these social diversions give rise to different and competing interests.

The War on Poverty,a crime prevention strategy adopted in the United States during the 1960s,was based on:

Which of the following proposes that people feel pressure to do something when they are exposed to cultural goals that they are unable to obtain because they do not have access to socially approved means of achieving those goals.

Durkheim argued that as ________ decreased,crime and deviance would increase.

Which of the following refers to the inability to sustain oneself physically and materially.

Merton shifted Durkheim's concept of anomie from one of generalized normlessness to one of:

For ________,strain arose from the gap between goals and means,or aspirations and expectations.

Elijah Anderson notes that exporting manufacturing jobs overseas has made a bad situation worse in inner cities where

Drug use is most likely to be found in:

Cloward and Ohlin go beyond Merton by realizing that:

Human capital refers to:

Braithwaite's research supports the notion that:

In order to understand strain theories,it is important to distinguish between cultural factors and structural factors.A cultural factor would be:

Which of the following is the strongest criticism of strain theory?

Which of the following entails a rejection of the notion that aspirations are entirely self-created; rather,they are defined by society and transmitted by other members of the society.

Which of the following is a concept developed by Emile Durkheim to describe an absence of clear societal norms and values.

The condition known as microanomie is where an individual