SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Proletariat, Friedrich Engels, Labeling Theory
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Conflict theory: marxism, social power and the construction of crime. Conflict theory criticizes labelling theory in that decisions on what we label as crime aren"t solely consensus based objective dangers. Conflict theory approaches a model of society characterized by perpetual struggle between competing interest groups with uneven power differentials. It was influenced by german sociologists max weber and karl marx. Marx developed a critique of capitalism and class conflict which would later become influential for criminologists. By 1960s conflict theory emerged as a dominant paradigm study of history and classical economics was a way to tie both together basing theory on. Dialectical contradiction which is when two opposing forces at some point come into conflict and one has to give way to the other. At any given states in history there was struggle between the groups who provide the means of production and the mode of production. in criminology.
