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“A Social Reflex: Police and Blacks, Seeing Threat, Closing Ranks” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/police-shootings-race.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSociology&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0 Date of Publication: July 12th, 2016
Alongside the recent uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new and elaborate work, known as intergroup threat theory, has erupted. This theory does not attempt to answer why this violence is occurring. This theory attempts to elaborate upon the experiences of the indirect victims of these recent killings. When members of a specific social group feel threatened, the members’ views of each other, themselves and outsiders change (Taub 2016). …show more content…
The “social conflict approach” is a method of developing theory that portrays society as a battlefield of inequality which acts as a stimulus for conflict and change (Macionis 2016: 15). The main attributes that contribute to this approach are: race, class, ethnicity, gender and age. Minorities tend to be at a disadvantage and this leads them to attempt to gain rights. Through their attempts to climb up the ladder, there is conflict that is generated. This conflict is a part of society and is what sociologists who centralize their studies on this approach are searching
“A Social Reflex: Police and Blacks, Seeing Threat, Closing Ranks” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/police-shootings-race.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSociology&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0 Date of Publication: July 12th, 2016
Alongside the recent uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new and elaborate work, known as intergroup threat theory, has erupted. This theory does not attempt to answer why this violence is occurring. This theory attempts to elaborate upon the experiences of the indirect victims of these recent killings. When members of a specific social group feel threatened, the members’ views of each other, themselves and outsiders change (Taub 2016). …show more content…
The “social conflict approach” is a method of developing theory that portrays society as a battlefield of inequality which acts as a stimulus for conflict and change (Macionis 2016: 15). The main attributes that contribute to this approach are: race, class, ethnicity, gender and age. Minorities tend to be at a disadvantage and this leads them to attempt to gain rights. Through their attempts to climb up the ladder, there is conflict that is generated. This conflict is a part of society and is what sociologists who centralize their studies on this approach are searching