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Albert K. Cohen Quotes

1918–2014 United States

Albert K. Cohen (June 15, 1918 - November 25, 2014) was an American criminologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, known for his subcultural theory of delinquent urban gangs, including his influential book Delinquent Boys: Culture of the Gang.

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A comparative social science requires a generalized system of concepts which will enable the scientific observer to compare and contrast large bodies of concretely different social phenomena in consistent terms.

It is generally assumed that... register data are more representative than court data, which are the result of a long selective process of complaint, arrest, arraignment and prosecution.

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'.

Had much to say concerning crime

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