CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE

MAIN IDEAS

• Forces in society that promote competition and change
• How people in power interact with those with less power
• Violent conflicts, men and women, races etc.
• Competition over resources creates social change
• People in power protect their own interest at expense of others

MAIN IDEAS (CONT)

• Those with less power stand up against those in power
• Creates conflict
• Conflict creates social change
• Social change is inevitable

KARL MARX

• Middle class
• Well educated
• Worked for radical newspaper
• Died in poverty

KARL MARX

• Society is divided into bourgeoisie and proletariat
• Bourgeoisie own eveything
• Proletarians work
• Conflict is created
• Workers overthrow the capitalists

TODAYS WORLD

• Guys make more than women
• Segregation ending
• Gay marriage
• Without conflict there would be no social change