CRM 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Complex Differential Form, Juvenile Delinquency, Cultural Imperialism
5 Apr 2013
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Crm302-011 week 9: conflict and critical theories. Louis wirth, thorsten sellin, george vold, ralf dahrendorf. Robert merton (1938), edwin sutherland (1949), david lockwood (1956), c. wright mills (1959, Roots of the kind of theorizing go back to the mid-19th century, but took off on the heels of labelling theory. Mid-1970"s: work of these conflict theorists were being scrutinized due to the red scare . Red scare was a fear of leftist ideas/communism, which continued into the 1950"s when joseph. Communism was supposed to be a form of addressing social inequality but was seen as hating. Theorists were retreating for fear of being jailed and openly rejected these leftist ideas. These theories were the most radical forms of theorizing (radical = getting to the root of) Took labelling theory to the next level (asked us to consider the process behind criminalization and consider that particular criminal behaviour is defined as so because it is in someone"s best interest to do so)
