Functionalist Explanations of Crime and Deviance
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- Created on: 17-04-16 12:00
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- Functionalist Explanations of Crime and Devience
- DURKHEIM argued that all societies face major problems
- How to achieve social order
- This is no easy task, because there are unique individuals, with there own interests
- How to maintain social stability
- DURKHEIM saw this through the collective conscious where society members agree on common expectations on behavior
- One way is to reinforce the collective conscious is to challenge and test its fundamental beliefs through BAD behavior
- He saw it as a normal part of everyday life
- One way is to reinforce the collective conscious is to challenge and test its fundamental beliefs through BAD behavior
- This is no easy task, because there are unique individuals, with there own interests
- How to maintain social stability
- How to achieve social order
- Neo-Functionalist Tierney (2005)
- Notes that crime and device is social fact
- If these things are found in a "average" society it must be normal
- Thus supporting Durkheim's views that crime is normal
- If these things are found in a "average" society it must be normal
- Notes that crime and device is social fact
- A limited amount of crime and deviance are therefore necessary and inevitable
- However to much crime would be bad for society
- But it forms a number of necessary functions
- DURKHEIM argued that all societies face major problems
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