SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conflict Theories, Volksgemeinschaft, Nazi Concentration Camps
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Thesis: conflict theory can be boiled down as a paradigm that sees social conflict as the underlying. Unstable individuals with a death wish - psychologists: they"re deprived, absolute deprivation - long standing poverty, relative deprivation - intolerable gap between what people expect out of life and what they get, clash of civilisations thesis. Islamic culture" leads to a collective" hatred toward the west. Conflict theory of terrorism: terrorist activities are strategically rational political actions aimed at coercing a foreign state to remove its military forces from territory that the group members view to be their homeland. Conflict-interactionist theory: when other tactics fail, out of desperation, members of occupied territories may result to suicide bombing. Case study conclusion: terrorism is an example of a crime that results from conflict between groups of people. In this case conflict over territory, power, and resources: crime as a result of laws that are fueled by conflict.
