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Secondary Culture Conflict

Definition

Conflict that develops inside a single culture as it differentiates internally, so that competing normative codes emerge without any external group being involved.

Related terms

Acculturation
The process by which a person or group absorbs the norms of a new or dominant culture, often incompletely and unevenly across...
Conduct Norms
The rules a group holds for how its members ought to behave, learned through socialisation into that group and enforced by informal...
Normative Conflict
A broader term for the state in which two or more sets of behavioural rules apply to the same population and disagree...
Primary Culture Conflict
Conflict between the conduct norms of two distinct, established cultures that come into direct contact through migration, colonisation, or a shift in...
Thorsten Sellin
The Swedish-American criminologist who set out culture conflict theory in Culture Conflict and Crime (1938), building on his earlier work on the...

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