Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0037 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Conflict Theory
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The idea
Conflict theory treats society as a competition over scarce resources, in which groups holding power work to keep it.
In practice
Asked why school funding varies by neighborhood, this framework looks at who set the funding rule and who benefits.
Where people slip
Conflict need not be violent or even visible; most of it is procedural.
Your place on the trail
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- 0046Reading One Case Through Three Lenses
- 0052The Sociological Perspective, Applied
- 0335Culture Through Three Lenses
- 0530Society and Self Through Three Lenses
- 0663Conflict Theory on Deviance
- 0860Conflict Theory on Stratification
- 1054Critical Race Theory
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- 1946Three Generations: A Family Across the Whole Course
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