SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Social Order, Marxism, Sweatshop
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It moves away from the individual view of crime and goes towards political and economical view. According to conflict theory capitalist theory: defines what criminal behaviour is, create conditions for conduction of crime. This view became popular in 1970 and people started to respond to event that were going on at the time. They borrowed a lot from conflict and marx: overview, roots, grand theory: consensus vs. Conflict perspectives: assumptions of the consensus model- if change occurs it would be because of catastrophic change, and since moral values are widely shared, the delinquents are not part of the. Society is held together by the constrain and consensus. Social order is maintained by ruling class. Its in the interest of ruling class no to prosecute the white collar crimes. We must concentrate on the distribution of crime, labels are selectively applied to certain people. Consensus stability, society is well integrated, all elements have a function, value consensus.