The Analysis of Social Conflict in J.K. Rowling’s novel “The Casual Vacancy

This thesis studied social conflict in J.K. Rowling’s novel “The CasualVacancy”. The problems of this thesis are to find outkinds and causes of socialconflictin thenovel. The method used in this researchwasqualitativedescriptivemethod. Thesource of data is J.K. Rowling’snovel“The Casual Vacancy”, which is publishedin 2012. The writer used note taking to collect the data source. From thisinstrument the writer read the novel, identified the statement which contain thesocial conflict. The writer used cards to write the sentences fromThe CasualVacancywhich contain thesocial conflict in the novel.Besides, the writer usedMalesevic’s and Rummel’s theory to analyzing kinds and causes of social conflictin the novel. The writer foundall the kindsofsocial conflict.The writer found 6dataman versus man and20 datagroup versus group (16 data intergroup and 4dataintragroup).The result of this research shows that intergroup isdominantkindsofsocial conflict in the novel, and intragroup is less kinds of social conflict in thenovel.Then, the causes of social conflict found in thenovel J.K. Rowling’s “TheCasual Vacancy” are 13 data political, 1data moral, 3 data bullying, 6 dataemotional, 1data religious and 2data racism. Political is the dominant cause inthe novel that 13data, and religious and moral are the less cause in the novel thoseare 1data. The writer suggests the readers to know and understand about socialconflict especially kinds and causes of socialconflic