ARSC 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Group Conflict, Structural Marxism, Marital Rape
14 Dec 2016
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** sagging your pants comes from the american prison culture in the late 80"s and early 90"s was used as a symbol for a trade off sex for protection** Conflict perspective assumes that societies are more divided by conflict than they are integrated by consensus. Conflict theorists question the assumption that laws represent the interests of society as a whole. Instead, the social norms and values codified into law are those endorsed by the more powerful or dominant groups in society. In complex societies, diverse cultural groups maintain distinct conduct norms or cultural rules governing appropriate conduct. Thus, there may be cultural conflict between the conduct norms of different cultural groups. E. g. , norms of immigrant cultures could potentially come into conflict with the conduct norms of the established or dominant culture. One sphere where culture conflict appears is in the legal sphere, especially criminal law. E. g. , female genital mutilation, honour killings, marital rape, and forced marriage.
