ANOMIE THEORY


THEORETICAL STATEMENTS

Required Readings:

Emile Durkheim. "Anomic Suicide." In Stuart Traub and Craig Little, eds. Theories of Deviance. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1999, 131-141.

Robert K. Merton. "Social Structure and Anomie." In Stuart Traub and Craig Little, eds. Theories of Deviance. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1999, 142-173.

Richard A. Cloward. "Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior." In Stuart Traub and Craig Little, eds. Theories of Deviance. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1999, 174-194.

Supplementary Readings:

Albert Cohen. "The Sociology of the Deviant Act: Anomie Theory and Beyond. In Stuart Traub and Craig Little, eds. Theories of Deviance. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1999, 194-209.

Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin. Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs. New York: Free Press, 1960.


RESEARCH FINDINGS

Required Readings:

Nikos Passas. "Anomie and Corporate Deviance." In Stuart Traub and Craig Little, eds. Theories of Deviance. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, 1999, 210-232.

Robert Agnew and Helene White. "An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory." Criminology 30 (1992):475-499.

Deborah Cohen. "Ethics and Crime in Business Firms: Organizational Culture and the Impact of Anomie." In Freda Adler and William Laufer, eds. The Legacy of Anomie Theory. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, 183-206.

Ivan Light. "The Ethnic Vice Industry, 1880-1944." American Sociological Review 42 (1977): 464-479.

Supplementary Readings:

Daniel Bell. "Crime as an American Way of Life: A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility." In Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology. New York: Free Press, 1960, 127-150..

Edwin Powell. "Crime as a Function of Anomie." Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science 57 (1966): 16-29.

James Short. "Gang Delinquency and Anomie." In Marshall Clinard, ed. Anomie and Deviant Behavior. New York: Free Press, 1964, 98-127.