2B - Quiz 3

He contended that an interpersonal state of anomie is produced whenever there are discrepancies between the goals that societies create for people and the acceptable means that societies provide for achieving those goals.

• Robert K. Merton

• Siegel

• Emile Durkheim

There are Five concentric zones. What is Zone V?

• Commuter Zone

• Lower Income Working People

• Central Business District

Anomie is derived from the greek word "nomos" which means

• Norms

• War

• Solidarity

This theory was introduced by Robert K. Merton

• Strain Theory

• Anomie theory

• Social Disorganization Theory

This theory argues that crime occurs when there is a gap between the cultural goals of a society (e.g. material wealth, status) and the structural means to achieve these (e.g. education, employment).

• Strain Theory

• Anomie theory

• Social Disorganization Theory

It explains conformity rather than deviance. It is primarily associated with the work of TRAVIS HIRSCHI (1969), an America social scientist who proposed that people general conform to social norms due to strong social bonds.

• Social Control Theory

• Rational Choice Theory

• Social Learning Theory

French sociologist wrote Suicide (1893).

• DURKHEIM, EMILE

• MARX, KARL

• MERTON, ROBERT K

It is an act or omission in violation of a public law commanding or prohibiting it.

• Crime

• Deviant

• Felony

A set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how phenomena are related and from which a number of hypotheses can be derived and tested.

• Theory

• Ideology

• Policy

Crime occurs when the wealthy and the poor live close to one another

• Relative deprivation theory

• Institutional Anomie Theory

• General Strain Theory