CONFLICT THEORY
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CONFLICT THEORY
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The philosophical and historical underpinnings of conflict theory, tracing back to the dialectical
perspective evident in Plato’s Republic. A critical review, via detailed textual analysis, of the
essential elements of conflict theory as propounded or understood by a selection of thinkers, such
as: Marx, Simmel, Weber, Coser, Dahrendorf, and Collins. A critical evaluation of Bottomore’s thesis
that Marx’s theory represents a juxtaposition of “conflict” and ‘equilibrium” models of society; and
an exploration of the “layers” within which each model obtains. An exposition of the fundamental
laws of dialects, and their implications for the process of interaction, conflict and change in social
life; and an inquiry into the fusion of dialects and materialism specifically as the energizing basis for
intra-epoch social formations and inter-epoch transitions [dialectics, through contradiction/negation,
providing the motion; and the material bases providing both the generic terrain and the grounding
for contending social forces and ideas]. ‘Unsettled’ aspects of derivative theories of alienation,
ideology, and revolution. The space-time-size within which social conflicts occur, the issues that are
usually involved, and how these are typically ‘resolve’. And a concluding argument on the functions
and dysfunctions of conflict in society.
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