SOC 22000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Conflict Theory, Social Conflict, Group Conflict

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 22000
• Professor: Hillis, Rolden

Document Summary

Social conflict is a struggle over values or claims to status, power and scarce resources. The aims of the conflict groups are not only to gain the desired values but also to neutralize, injure, or eliminate rivals. Social conflict encompasses a broad range of social phenomena: class. Religious and communal conflicts; riots, rebellions, revolutions; strikes and civil disorders; marches, demonstrations protest gatherings. Social conflict theory: a sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is the best understood in terms of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources. Society is created from the ongoing conflict between key groups. According to some theorists, these groups are the main economic (cid:498)classes(cid:499) of. These are made up of those who own the ain wealth o society, and those who society own little but their ability to labor. Social conflict is the struggle for agency or power in society.