Exam II Key Terms: •Mechanical Solidarity:Social glue that holds societies together; People doing similar things •Organic Solidarity:Functional interdependence •Anomie:societal mal-integration where the is a dissociation between valued culture ends and legitimate societal means to meet those ends •Delinquent Sub-Cultures:groups that decide it’s “cool” not to succeed; and it’s “cool” to rebel •“American Dream”:a commitment to the goals of material success to be pursued by everyone in society, under conditions of open American competition •Macro-level Theory:explains cross-national differences in serious crime (ex: homicide; robbery) •Content:of what is learned includes specific techniques for committing crimes and attitudes/definitions favorable to law violation •Process:by which learning takes place involves associations with other people in intimate personal groups •Mead:people in the same situations act in different ways •
