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Article 1: Ferret, J. (November 2014). Young radical nationalists: Prisoners of their own myth? The case of the Kale Borroka in the Spanish Basque country. Current Sociology 62: 1017-1035

Ferret (2014) examines political and violent socialization, and its connections to and influences upon individual, peer and discourse conditions while also exploring how individual predispositions acquired from family, social class or peer group in an ideological background, constitute, or not, prerequisites for young men to turn to nationalist street fighting.

Questions to Consider:

  1. What is anomie? How might the youth radical nationalist experience anomic situations and participate in violence?
  2. Does this article examine chaos from a micro or macro level? What role does Bourdieu’s concept of urban exclusion and social conditions play in explaining this deviance?

Article 2: Carter, Eric M. and Michael V. Carter.  2007. “A Social Psychological Analysis of Anomie Among National Football League Players.”  International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 42(3): 243-270.

Carter and Carter (2007) examine why some NFL players participate in deviant, sometimes law breaking, behavior, while some do not, through the lens of anomie. Findings suggest anomie is the strongest predictor of deviant and/or criminal behavior among the sample studied.

Additional articles:

Agnew, Robert.  2001. “Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory: Specifying the Types of Strain Most Likely to Lead to Crime and Delinquency.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 38(4):319-361.

Cullen, Francis T. and Messner, Steven F.  2007.  “The Making of Criminology Revisited: An Oral History of Merton's Anomie Paradigm.”  Theoretical Criminology, 11(5): 5-37.

Inderbitzin, Michelle.  2007.  “Inside a Maximum-Security Juvenile Training School: Institutional Attempts to Redefine the American Dream and Normalize Incarcerated Youth.” Punishment & Society, 9(3): 235-251.

Muftic, Lisa R.  2006.  “Advancing Institutional Anomie Theory: A Microlevel Examination Connecting Culture, Institutions, and Deviance.”  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 50(6): 630-653.