Sociology Structural Strain Theory

Structural Strain theory builds upon Duekheims concept of

• Strain

• Anomie

• Bonds

• Conformity

The condition of confusion when norms in society are absent or weak is known as

• Anomie

• Conformity

• Diversity

• Labelling

Which sociologists is associated with Structural Strain theory?

• Robert Merton

• Sutherland

• Hirshi

• Durkheim

Deviance is the outcome of an imbalance between __________and the availbility of ______________

• Socially approved means and socially approved goals

• Socially approved goals and socially approved means

• Anomie and socially approved means

• Socially approved norms and socially approved behaviour

Strucutral Strain theory would say that strains within society itself exert pressure on some people to deviate rather than conform.

• FALSE

• TRUE

When people accept both the goals and the means (Merton's Typology) is known as

• Conformity

• Innovation

• Retreatism

• Rebellion

When people accept the approved goals but resort to dissaproved means (Mertons Typology)

• Innovation

• Conformity

• Retreatism

• Rebellion

When people abandon the goals as irrelvant to their lives but still enact the means (Merton's typology)

• Retreatism

• Innovation

• Ritualism

• Rebellion

When people abandon both the approved goals and the approved means (Merton's Typology)

• Innovation

• Ritualism

• Rebellion

• Retreatism

When people reject both the approved goals and the means and then subsitute dissaproved ones instead (Merton's Typology)

• Retreatism

• Ritualism

• Rebellion

• Conformity