CRIM1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conflict Theories, Social Inequality
27 Jul 2018
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Began to get first strands of development > 1950s, social scientists were conservative and supportive of legitimacy of the status quo, accepts things the way they are. Traditional way of doing things, traditional social relationships: core value system, dissenters should be made to conform, preserve dominant order = best for majority. Reflected in criminological writings: deviation meant deviation consensus. Functionalist: everything conceived as operating to sustain society as a whole, shared interests and values, deviation was unacceptable, upsets equilibrium, individuals are socialised into core values and interests until the 1960s. Society is controlled by the law as applied by a ruling social class. Keeping all other classes in a disadvantaged position. General rebellion against norms, values, activities, of mainstream society. Civil rights uprising: students, women"s liberation movement, minority groups, children. Competing interests: ancestral, class, religious, gender, age, political/economic, lifestyle, subcultural.
