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Deviant Response The term first derived from Merton’s essay on Social Structure and Anomie which stated that strain was the outcome of blocked access to socially defined goals, and that strain contributed to the genesis of delinquent subcultures. From this Cloward and Ohlin decided to expand on Merton’s ideas and show how societies induce deviant response. Therefore, Deviant response is the point at which individuals are prepared to risk rule breaking as a …

…or social integration. The regulatory functions impose entire systems of social restraints and disciplinary regemes. The integrative functions ensure that individual aims and purposes actually coinside with overall aims and purposes of society. The social claims that the institutions impose on the individuals depends on which institution is dominant. The personality of the individual and the society is much different if the economic structure is dominant, as opposed to if the religious structure is dominant.