CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Conflict, Group Conflict, Class Conflict
13 Sep 2015
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A conduct norm is a specification of rules or norms of appropriate behaviour generally agreed upon by members of the social group to whom the behavioural norms apply. He argues that modern society is made up of diverse cultural groups, each maintaining distinct cultural norms" or cultural rules that govern appropriate conduct. This means that more complex societies will have more conflict. Cultural conflict arises when conduct norms clash on the border areas between distinct cultures; as a result of colonization, migration, or immigration; or when the laws of one cultural group are extended to cover the territory of another". Crime is generally a reflection of cultural conflict when individuals who act based on the norms of their own cultural group find themselves in violation of the norms of the dominant group has enacted. One of the main spheres in which cultural conflict will appear is criminal law.
