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Strain Theory

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Psychology

 

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September 26, 2013

 

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For example, if your goal is obtaining wealth and possessions, then the culturally approved method for achieving this goal would include a job and education. For some, if they are denied a “legitimate” way of achieving this particular goal, they will gain access through “illegitimate” or “deviant” means (Kendall 164)...
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For some, if they are denied a “legitimate” way of achieving this particular goal, they will gain access through “illegitimate” or “deviant” means (Kendall 164). Robert Merton borrowed, if you will, Durkheim's concept of anomie to form his own theory, called Strain Theory. It differs somewhat from Durkheim's in that Merton argued that the real problem is not created by a sudden social change, as Durkheim proposed, but rather by a social structure that holds out the same goals to all its members without giving them equal means to achieve them...
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