American criminologist whose 1955 book Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang founded subcultural theory, explaining working class gang delinquency as a collective inversion of mainstream middle class values. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountFounded subcultural (delinquent subculture) theory (1955). 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Albert K. Cohen
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In his 1955 work, Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang, Cohen wrote about delinquent gangs and suggested in his theoretical discussion how such gangs attempted to 'replace' society's common norms and values with their own sub-cultures.
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