Class, State and Crime - Quinney Flashcards
Opposing groups with opposing ideas. Capitalist own and control the means of production (we sell our labour and then we receive a small fraction of the surplus value
Conflict Theory
Who controls and owns the means of production?
Capitalist Class
Who are opposed and who oppress?
Workers are oppressed
capitalists oppress
There is an ___ between workers and capitalist class
Interdependence
Quinney states that the feds and government will step in if there is a threat to ?
Social class
Example of capitalism?
FORD PENTO
- wanted available for consumers for dead line, defect in gas tank, CEO decided that lawsuits were more affordable than recalling cars therefore sold them and people died.
Cost analysis-