Whilst Merton focused on deviance as an individual response to anomie, subculture theory focuses more on delinquency as a subculture response. Albert Cohen (1995) improved on Merton’s idea of strain. He states that work-class adolescents share the same success goals of mainstream culture, but due to being young, they lack the means to achieve those goals. They primarily fail in education, have very few job opportunities and mostly live in deprived areas, in turn, making it harder for them to achieve their goals. This causes feeling of failure and inadequacy. Cohen calls this ‘status frustration’. They see the only solution to the problem is the development of a delinquent subculture where rather than valuing education, employment and wealth;