A theory of delinquency and delinquent subcultures developed by Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin in Delinquency and Opportunity ( 1960 ). Cloward and Ohlin made use of Robert K. Merton 's observations that legitimate opportunities to pursue culturally approved goals are socially structured and unevenly distributed—especially by class. Differential-opportunity theory extends this notion of socially structured unequal access to delinquency and criminality. Drawing on Edwin Sutherland 's work on forms of delinquent and criminal socialization, Cloward and Ohlin suggested that the social structure of a community determines access to both the learning and performance structures that underwrite career delinquency and criminal subcultures.
Opportunities to excel materially in America are not equally available. The theory states that where opportunities are not present -- through violence, endemic poverty, poor education or widespread drug abuse (to name a few)-- crime increases. Intuitively, this makes common sense, and was adopted writ-large by the US policymakers from the Kennedy administration through the Bush II. Then, along came the Great Recession and turned the empirical support for the theory on its head. (See "More Povery = More Crime theory debunked)
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Heather MacDonald says recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most common social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice. As the economy started shedding jobs in 2008, criminologists and pundits predicted that crime would shoot up. Instead, the opposite happened. Over seven million lost jobs later, crime has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1960s.
Forty one years after Ray's arrest, read check out the theory that changed the King family's minds.
Social learning theory; proof 'do as I say and not as I do' doesn't work.
The number of donut shops in a city is directly proportional to its crime rate. More crime => more Police Officers-per-capita => larger donut consumption potential => more donut shops.
Human motivation exists in a five-tiered structure. The five tiers from lowest to highest are sociological needs, personal security needs, social needs, esteem needs and the penultimate need: self-actualization.
Turns out, the meteorite that supposedly killed the dinosaurs may have been 300,000 years late.
Want to know the secret to personalities and personal success? Use hair part theory. It worked for Margaret Thatcher.
A theory developed by Pavlov that shows one can change a stimulus part of a stimulus-response pattern (like a flinch from a loud noise) to something neutral (a blue light turning on) and generate the same response. In this example, the blue light could cause the subject to flinch.
Great man creat history through their actions, leadership, art, and innovation. At least, Carlyle thought so in the 19th century.
The explanation for 'Lost' is Jason Hunter's Time Loop theory. But you have to see it to really get it.
It’s true. Norton portrays the grown-up version of Calvin, while Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal, Hobbes, reincarnated as Tyler Durden. The entire film is an allegory that details what happens to Calvin as an adult.
The most widespread and enduring conspiracy theories—British intelligence killed Princess Diana, the U.S. government orchestrated 9/11—are completely absurd. But that doesn’t stop them from drawing a vast and vehement audience. David Aaronovitch picks apart 12 grand conspiracy theories to conclude that they are concocted and promoted, in large part, by educated losers. (Yes, he actually calls them losers.)
'Gravity' hints at the passion behind Newton's theoriesDetroit Free PressBY JOHN MONAGHAN It's an image planted in the mind of every schoolkid: Isaac Newton sits beneath an apple tree as a shiny red orb bonks him on the noggin. ... ABC's Lost: Lighthouse Episode Recap & TheoriesMetrowny.com...
The island used to be connected to the rest of the Earth, but was detached during electromagnetism experiments conducted by the Dharma Initiative. It is capable of traveling anywhere with the only parameter being gravity
Now that they've had two days to think about it, what can the Internet's brainiest 'Lost' theorists tell us about the show's final season?
Inflation theory, which posits that the universe ballooned from subatomic scale to the size of a soccer ball during its first 10-33 seconds, has had great ...
There are a million different ingenious theories out there that explain this or that certain phenomenon and many are very complicated. See which one are surfacing on the interwebs today.
Nick Jonas (and the Administration) has just released a new song and it's called "Conspiracy Theory."
Listen to the newest single from his upcoming album "Who I Am" below:
Amateur historian Rick Rogers has spent decades developing a theory that either Dutch or Spanish traders visited Hawaii before Captain Cook's 1778 arrival. Maps from 1589 showing an approximation of Hawaii's shape and location; remains of a 1664 women indicating she had syphilis and the disappearance of 5 Spanish ships plying the Manila to Acapulco trade in the 1500 and 1600s make his case.
Scholars at the global warming skeptics thinktank, "The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)" say ocean acidification theory is a scare tactic ignores Cambrian data, the chemistry of CO2 and the alkaline affect of ocean rocks.
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