根据达伦多夫的辩证冲突论在梅科姆的种族隔离下的社会是一种社会压制型的社会,这里群体性种族冲突被压制的原因一是由于整个社会都接受的社会共识即白人对于黑人拥有绝对的权威,二是黑人群体缺少上升为外显群体的条件。就科塞的功能冲突论而言,是因为有些作为权威阶层的白人充当了社会安全阀,并且作为小说中社会冲突代表的汤姆·罗宾逊案,对于社会的进步具有促进作用,即冲突的正向功能。 According to Dahrendorf’s dialectical conflict theory, the society under the apartheid in Maycom is a socially suppressed society. The reason why the mass ethnic conflicts are suppressed here is that social consensus accepted by the whole society means that whites Blacks have absolute authority, and second, the black population lacks the conditions for rising as an explicit group. For Corrson’s theory of functional conflict, it is because some white people as the authoritative class act as social safety valves, and the case of Tom Robinson, the representative of social conflicts in the novel, has a positive effect on social progress, that is, the positive Features.