Cohen's Deliquent Subcultures
- Combining Mertonian Anomie with social learning.
- Lower-income youth have blocked opportunities to success.
- Problem of middle-class measuring rods.
- Parents, teachers and bosses (middle-class figures) that they can't seem to be validated by.
- They can't seem to achieve the standards for success by the top dogs.
- Anomie Theory
- Thus, they change the goals and or means to get the goals.
- Via Strain Theory
- They rebel or form their own subculture, etc.
- Delinquent subcultures are formed to oppose middle-class values.