Grace Myers- Structural Functional Theory and Racial Profiling
Racial profiling the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense.This social conflict used how the contract for policing justice, biased policing is not legitimate policing which can lead to a mistrust in the community making it hard for the law enforcement to have effective services. IN this social conflict the theoretical perspective used is structural functionalism.
The functionalist perspective, also known as functionalism, believe society is held together by social consensus or cohesion, in which members of a society agree upon and work together to achieve a specific goal. Each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society. Functionalists believe that society is divided into two groups, the dominant and the subordinate these two groups are the natural part of society, that is not balanced when it comes to subjects such as race, and that one race is superior over another. Therefore, functionalist view racial profiling as being performed by dominant groups to cause the subordinate group to feel inferior, which would give each their own roles in society because …show more content…
Conflict theory is used to explain conflict, negative prejudices and discrimination that can occur between groups, in this case, it is the public with police. Social conflict theory suggests that power is unequally divided, and some social groups dominate others and that social change is brought up by conflict. Conflict theory would see the police as the dominant people that have control over all the laws while the community is the unequal. This could cause conflict in the society social aspect and cause a change in the society as a whole. Conflict theory would suggest that the minorities are the ones who have less power in the criminal justice system bringing negative and unequal treatment to the
Racial profiling the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense.This social conflict used how the contract for policing justice, biased policing is not legitimate policing which can lead to a mistrust in the community making it hard for the law enforcement to have effective services. IN this social conflict the theoretical perspective used is structural functionalism.
The functionalist perspective, also known as functionalism, believe society is held together by social consensus or cohesion, in which members of a society agree upon and work together to achieve a specific goal. Each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society. Functionalists believe that society is divided into two groups, the dominant and the subordinate these two groups are the natural part of society, that is not balanced when it comes to subjects such as race, and that one race is superior over another. Therefore, functionalist view racial profiling as being performed by dominant groups to cause the subordinate group to feel inferior, which would give each their own roles in society because …show more content…
Conflict theory is used to explain conflict, negative prejudices and discrimination that can occur between groups, in this case, it is the public with police. Social conflict theory suggests that power is unequally divided, and some social groups dominate others and that social change is brought up by conflict. Conflict theory would see the police as the dominant people that have control over all the laws while the community is the unequal. This could cause conflict in the society social aspect and cause a change in the society as a whole. Conflict theory would suggest that the minorities are the ones who have less power in the criminal justice system bringing negative and unequal treatment to the