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Anomie and Structural Theories
1960s
massive social change
who are we? what have we become?
Anomie
normlessness, or condition in society when the established norms, rules and ways of life appear to have lost their hold on and importance to people.
Deviance occurs when there is a disconnection or disjunction between culture and structure.
culture as “that set of normative values governing behaviour which is common to members of a designated society or group”.
Social structure as “that set of social relationships in which members of the society or group are variously implicated”
Organic solidarity
more heterogeneous
Social cohesion develops from the strength of ties amog people who are commandaded and regulated by law
less collective conscience
more possibility of deviance/crime
Mechanical solidarity
societies that were less developed and more agrarian in social and economic structure
strong presence of the collective consciousness.
More social control
Repressive law-punisgment employed to mantain social order/obedience. Poweful presence of the collective coscience
deviant behaviour and crime is reduce
Emile Durkheim
In Division of Labour in Society
Robert K.Merton
Social Structure and Anomie 1968