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Matza- a criticism of subcultural theory

Matza

•One consistant criticism of subcultural theories was that there was little evidence to demonstrate a distinct set of anti social values.

•Matza argued that there were no distinctive subcultural values –but all groups in society shared a set of Subterranean values.

•The key thing was that most of the time individuals control their deviant desires- they only rarely emerge eg- at the office party or on holiday in Ibizia.

•But when they do emerge we use techniques of neutralisation to provide justification for our deviant actions.

•He is basically saying that all of us share deviant ‘subcultural values’ and that it is not true that there are groups with their own values different from the rest of us.