SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John T. Scopes, Social Conflict Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

When looked at with a social conflict approach, the reading does science. Threaten religion shows a controversy between ones religious beliefs and scientific theory. As defined in the textbook social conflict is the struggle between segments of society over valued resources (macionis, 99). Karl marx was a strong believer in the social conflict approach, he thought that conflict is what drives social change and growth. Darwin and john thomas scopes were only trying to keep some normality. As a researcher, i chose the social conflict approach as my cluster because it is a prime example of social dysfunction, which is any social pattern that could disrupt society. This is valid to this article because galileo"s theories and his research created a lot of controversy with different religions. Now however, scientists agree that science and religion represent important but different truths (macionis,