In the status game, then, the working-class child starts out with a handicap and, to the extent that he cares what the middle-class persons think of … - Albert K. Cohen
" "In the status game, then, the working-class child starts out with a handicap and, to the extent that he cares what the middle-class persons think of him or has internalised the dominant middle-class attitudes toward social class position, he may be expected to feel some 'shame'.
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About Albert K. Cohen
(June 15, 1918 - November 25, 2014) was an American criminologist and Professor of Sociology at the , known for his of delinquent urban gangs, including his influential book Delinquent Boys: Culture of the Gang. In 1993 he received the society's Edwin H. Sutherland award.
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Albert Kircidel Cohen
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We usually assume that when people steal things, they steal because they want them. They may want them because they can eat them, wear them or otherwise use them; or because they can sell them; or even-if we are given to a psychoanalytic turn of mind because on some deep symbolic level they substitute or stand for something unconsciously desired but forbidden. All of these explanations have this in common, that they assume that the stealing is a means to an end, namely, the possession of some object of value, and that it is, in this sense, rational and utilitarian. However, the fact cannot be blinked-and this fact is of crucial importance in defining our problem-that much gang stealing has no such motivation at all.
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