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COHEN; criticises Merton in 2 ways. Firstly he ignores group C+D. Secondly he ignores non-utiletarian crimes that are not for money. W/C groups come together, to express their anomie through deviance.
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| Now all the pupils who have books and their P.E kits can have a merit mark! Those who haven't you can have detention! | |
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| But my Dad was made redundant, thats not fair! I'm gonna meet people like me and show this punk whow we **** up the system! | |
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Alternative status hierarchy; The W/c pupils develop their own illegitimate oppurtunity structure to combat against the one in existence. this is known as an alternative status hierarchy.
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| WOAH! These drugs are messing with my head. I swear I can see a big cigarrete guy!! | |
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| SMOKE ME JJ! Together we can REBEL hahaha we don't NEED the system! You'll be cool if you do and gain more status ;) ! | |
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Evaluation; Cohen unlike Merton explains why about non-utalitarian crimes occur, but wrongly assumes all W/C boys share the same goals.
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| That's 2 accounts of indecent exposure, defacing Ms.Pudney's desk, and the stealing of all of her diet coke! | |
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| Yeah, but...No...but...yeah...but no but BOTHERED. At least now im the real baddaman of barking everyones gonna know my name. Dude...Do you like my boxers? | |
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