CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thorsten Sellin, Conflict Theories, Cultural Conflict
Document Summary
A perspective on social organization that holds that conflict is a fundamental aspect of society. Crime results from: social stratification and an inequality between social classes. Basic premise: modern society is composed of diverse cultural groups, each possessing their own distinct conduct norms, that govern appropriate conduct, inevitably leading to cultural conflict. Conduct norms: specification of rules or norms of appropriate behaviour generally agreed upon by members of the social group to whom the behaviour norms apply. Cultural conflict: conflict that emerges between conduct norms of divergent cultural groups, criminal law generally reflects the values and conduct norms of dominant cultural group. A theory that explains certain types of criminal behaviour as resulting from a conflict between the interests of divergent groups: social class. The source of social conflict: number and diversity of social groups, politics and the law-making process, e. g. Sources of criminal behaviour: minority group behaviour.
