Retreatist Adaptation Case Study

Differential Association A man (who will not identify himself) has been the centre of the Ottawa police’s attention after videos where he stayed inside certain buildings after hours without permission were found on youtube. Apparently, it is a new internet trend to make videos where individuals stay in various venues for 24 hours at a time and recording the experience. The perpetrator said that he did these videos because they gave him a rush and because the people love watching them. Police have warned against doing the challenge, as they find it to be an incredibly stupid thing to do. No charges have been laid. Differential Association is a type of social learning theory advanced by Edwin Sutherland in 1939. It stipulates that criminality …show more content…
The theory is that everyone feels a certain pressure to reach set social goals, and delinquency is just the manifestation of there being a lack of means to attain those goals or of having a disinterest in those goals. In the case of Retreatist Adaptation, there is an absence of both socially approved goals and the means to reach them. These people may lead alternative lifestyles (i.e., communal living), quit school or become drug abusers. Retreatists are generally seen as social and psychological outcasts (Shmalleger, Volk, 2014, p. …show more content…
It stipulates that society is composed of bourgeoisie and of the proletariat (the poor); the bourgeoisie own all enterprises and the poor sell their labour to the bourgeoisie. This causes conflict, as the bourgeoisie wants to control the proletariat and the proletariats wants independence. In the case of a Crisis of Legitimacy, the public (the proletariat) looses faith in those in charge (the bourgeoisie), which leads to chaos (crisis). The government then has to try and bring order and reassurance back, but the crisis can spiral out of control (Dumas, Fall