Where in a Marxist perspective, class is an interactional function of one’s relation with the modes of production.
CONFLICT THEORY – Influenced mostly by the theories of Marx and Simmel, another stream of literature known as conflict theory believes that the functionalist emphasis on social maintenance is inadequate to truly understand the energetic activities of social systems. It draws its theory from the contradictions of capitalism, particularly the economic determinism and patterns of property ownership between labor and […]






