CONFLICT THEORY Published on Department of Sociology and Social Work (http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke) CONFLICT THEORY Share: Facebook [1] Twitter [2] Google Plus [3] Yahoo [4] LinkedIn [5] Digg [6] Delicious [7] 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. Source URL: http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/node/4809 Links: [1] http://facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/node/4809&t=CONFLICT+TH EORY [2] http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=CONFLICT+THEORY&url=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/n ode/4809 [3] https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/node/4809 [4] http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?opener=tb&u=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/no de/4809&t=CONFLICT+THEORY&d=%0A%09The+philosophical+and+hist... [5] http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/node/4809&mini=true &title=CONFLICT+THEORY&ro=false&summary=%0A%09The+philosophical+and+hi st...&source= [6] http://digg.com/submit?url=http://sociology.uonbi.ac.ke/node/4809&title=CONFLICT+THEORY [7] http://www.delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url=http://sociology.uonbi .ac.ke/node/4809&title=CONFLICT+THEORY Page 1 of 1 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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