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The conflict perspective views society as characterized by continuous conflict between groups competing over limited resources like wealth, power and prestige. Society is held together through the domination of powerful groups over subordinate groups, rather than consensus. Conflict theorists see values as imposed by dominant groups rather than agreed upon. They focus on conflicts of interest between classes, races, and other social groups.

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Conflict Perspective

The conflict perspective views society as characterized by continuous conflict between groups competing over limited resources like wealth, power and prestige. Society is held together through the domination of powerful groups over subordinate groups, rather than consensus. Conflict theorists see values as imposed by dominant groups rather than agreed upon. They focus on conflicts of interest between classes, races, and other social groups.

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Conflict Perspective

Conflict perspective focuses their attention on society as a

whole. Conflict theorists see society as in a continuous sate of

conflict between groups and classes. The struggle for power and

income is a continuous process but one in which many categories

of people appear as opponents-classes, races, nationalities and

even the sexes. Society is held together through the power of

dominant groups or classes. The shared values, which

functionalist see as glue for holding society together, do no

really form true consensus. Instead, the dominant groups or

classes impose their values and rules upon rest of the people in

this artificial consent. The source of conflict in society, they

hold, is the scarcity of the resources people requires e.g.

wealth, prestige and power are always in limited supply and their

gain for an individual and group are often associated with losses

for others.

3. Symbolic Integrationist Perspective

Symbolic interactionism is base on three core assumptions.

First, we respond to things in our environment based on their

meanings. Second, meanings are not inherent in things, but emerge

from social interaction. Third, because we are continually

interacting, shared cultural meanings are continually emerging

and changing. The interactionist perspective is more concerned


with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life. They

concentrate their attention on interaction between individuals

and groups. They noted that people interact mainly through

symbols, which include signs, gesture, and most importantly,

through written and spoken words. The word has no inherent

meaning. It is simply a noise, but it becomes a word when people

reach agreement that this noise carries a special meaning. Thus,

“yes,” “no,” “go,” and thousands of other sounds became symbols

as meaning is attached to each. People do not respond to the

world directly; they respond to meanings they impute to the

things and happenings around them; a traffic light, a line-up a

ticket window. Conflict perspective on family

Perspective or theory is a set of general principles or

concepts used to explain data and to make predictions that may be

empirically tested. Conflict theory in sociology has its roots in

the. work of Karl Marx. Where as functionalist tend to believe

that “what is, is good,’ conflict theorist seem to believe that

“what is, is wrong.” Conflict theory holds that life involves

discord. Conflict theorist see society not as basically

cooperative but as divided, with individuals and groups in

conflict with each other, They try to identify the competing

forces within society.

They view society as divided between conflicting groups with

conflicting goals and interests. Family, in conflict perspective,


is seen as a class society in miniature. Functionalists also view

family as a society in miniature whose different members performs

various essential tasks contributing fbi the survival of the

whole family. Husband is a bread winner and wife takes care of

the children and performs domestic tasks. But to conflict

theorist family is compose of conflicting classes-one class (men)

oppressing the other class (women). Family is seen a social

arrangement benefiting some people more than others. Fredrick

Engel contented that marriage was the first form of class

antagonism in which the well being of one group derived from

misery and oppression of another. The motivation for sexual

pleasure was the economic exploitation of woman s labour.

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