Assignment 6

Student Name: _______________________________________________________

After completing the readings, answer the following questions:

1. Define the culture of poverty.

2. How do Messner and Rosenfeld define the American Dream? How is it criminogenic?

3. What is relative deprivation? Provide an example.

4. Define middle class measuring rod and reaction formation? How do these contribute to the formation of delinquent subcultures?

5. How was social structure theory used to inform policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations?