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Strain Theory

!SOC109 Lecture 11 (20249), p.12

• Talks about how people adapt to conditions where anomie theory takes over. How people either:
  • Conform
    • "I get bands by doctor or something"
  • Rituals
    • "I want to do what people say, but not get bands"
    • Spiritualism
  • Innovate
    • "I want to get bands, but not the way people tell me to"
    • Hoe out
    • Sell drugs
  • Retreat
    • "I don't want bands or uni"
    • Tweakers
  • or Rebel
    • "I want something else"
    • Terrorists?
  • Agnew includes negative relationships
• Strain can explain gang delinquency. Lower class youth can experience status frustration. Which is being frustrated because of a lack of equal opportunities which can then lead to conflicts, criminality or a culture where people retreat from society (tweakers? joker?).