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Conflict Theory on Deviance

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"d39b46b3f7ef22b4a3a221038394de7c" data-index&equals;"1" style&equals;"float&colon; left&semi; margin&colon; 10px 10px 10px 0&semi;">&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- Sociology Learners 336 X 280 Post Top --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;inline-block&semi;width&colon;336px&semi;height&colon;280px" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-7649183549375766" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1656902389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Deviance from conflict perspective can be explain by breaking up the theories of Karl Marx&period; Those who follow the work of Karl Marx concerning criminology are known as Marxist criminologist&period; The crux of Karl Marx theory is that&comma; society is evolving continuously and evolution is inevitable&period; Historically Few people rule and other were being ruled in a society&period; In slave society masters rule over the slaves and exploited them for material gain&period; In agriculture society land lords exploited peasants and Karl Marx refer to the status qua society as capitalist society&comma; where bourgeoisie exploits proletariat &lpar;working class&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">According to conflict theory&comma; deviance occurs due to class conflict&period; Bourgeoisie owns and controls the means of production in capitalist society and proletariat work for bourgeoisie to produce goods&period; All the efforts are put together by working class for production but they do not receive the fair share of their work&period; The owners of capital accumulate their wealth by exploiting working class&period; The working class cannot afford to buy the same products&comma; which they have produced in the factory&comma; because they are not being paid for their work fairly&period; In such unfair living condition lower class are compelled to commit crime for their survival&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Furthermore&comma; in capitalist society the goal of each and every individual is&comma; to become economically prosper&period; However&comma; most of them fail to obtain that goal because they do not have means to achieve the goal&period; For example&comma; most organization prefer to hire a graduate &lpar;for managerial level job&rpar; from a renowned educational institution&period; Lower class do not have access to a reputable institution because they can’t afford it&comma; that’s why they fail to accomplish their goal of economic prosperity&period; They are only left with an option of deviance to obtain their goals&period; Some might become drug dealer&comma; some may choose prostitution for financial security and some may become killers&period; Structural functionalist&comma; Merton and Durkheim shared a same view as explained in strain theory&period;&nbsp&semi; Conflict theory suggest that&comma; mostly crimes are committed by the people who lack the resources for survival and exploited by the bourgeoisie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Inequality in a society create chaos and unrest&comma; if resources are distributed equally amongst the individuals there would be no crime&period; The root cause of the deviance is class struggle&period; Moreover&comma; conflict theory suggest that&comma; legislature&comma; judiciary and executive branch of state are made and work for the people who are at the top of social ladder &lpar;upper class&rpar;&period; They just function for the interest and protection of upper class&period; Those who are at the bottom of social ladder &lpar;lower class&rpar; are not entertain by law enforcing institutions as they entertain upper class&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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