SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spitzer Space Telescope, Jock Young, Bourgeoisie
1 May 2014
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Conflict theories: cultural conflict theory, group conflict theory, marxist conflict perspectives, instrumental marxism, structuralist marxism, crimes of the powerless, crimes of the powerful. In culturally homogeneous societies, conduct norms reflect consensus (everyone agrees on these norms) In more complex heterogeneous societies there will be conflict between conduct norms of different groups (different people want different things based on religious views i. e. canada. ) Examples: bigamy=married more then one time=illegal in canada but in other religion"s it is allowed. But in canada it is criminal since it"s the criminal norm of the majority. People thought this will fail but then it passed. In fact swiss government did also not want it but since they had enough signature they had to make a law now: anything can become illegal it just depends on who has the power. It is not about what is most important to society but rather who is in power: no more burkas in france.
