SOCL 2001 Chapter : Conflict Theory
Document Summary
Functionalist= inequality is essential to have people fight to get to the topthe best people would get to the top/ people with less to offer will sit on the bottom. Karl marx: founder of conflict theory: 1818-1883, from germany, settled in london and lived in poverty to escape persecution, power struggles in beginning of industrial revolution, why have power struggles been a repeating pattern in history, economic change. What am i doing wrong to be in this bad of a position? . Not looking at the bigger picture of social changes and social contexts that were changing around them false understanding of what was going on in society: how will next struggles play out? individualistic. Marx: why the predictions failed: exploitation, crisis did take place in industrialized countries, but compromises were made, before class consciousness, reform created to improve conditions, give workers more rights, workers perceived other conflicts instead of conflicts with capitalists.
