SOC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Conflict, Social Change, Symbolic Interactionism
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Primary components: society is a complex system characterized by inequality and conflict. Social change is brought about by the continual resolution of conflict between groups with differential power. Social conflict is normal it is social order that must be explained. *society is the setting for continuous conflict over the incompatible interests of groups with different social power. Ex of incompatible interests: workers-maximize income, minimize work. Social conflict theory emphasizes conflict as the most important trait of any society. Little attention is paid to issues of solidarity, or unity and shared values. Structural functionalism and conflict are both marco level paradigms.
