Discuss Albert Cohen's theory of delinquent subcultures
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should include the following points:
• 9 norms make up the middle-class measuring rod
• Lower-class youth fully internalize the goals of middle-class culture but experience status frustration, or strain, because they are unable to attain them
• Strain explains their membership in delinquent gangs and their nonutilitarian, malicious, and
negativistic behavior
• Status at school measured by middle-class standards
• Reaction formation: psychological strategy for dealing with frustration by becoming hostile toward an unattainable object
• Reaction formation to address status frustration
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