Strain Theory in criminology explains how social pressure to achieve culturally approved goals without equal access to ...

Steven F. Messner, Marvin D. Krohn, Class, Compliance Structures, and Delinquency: Assessing Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory, American Journal of Sociology, Vol ...

Conceptions of the relationship between social structure and human agency have important implications for democratic theory and practice. A structuralist view of the structure-agency relationship ...