A report in Socioly and Culture with Family planning. Chapter 1

1. Conflict Perspective

2. Conflict Perspective
states that tensions and it arise when
resources, status, and power are unevenly
distributed between groups in society and
that these conflicts become the engine for
social change.
society is made up of individuals competing
for limited resources (e.g., money, leisure,
sexual partners, etc.).

3. Conflict Perspective
• Originated from the efforts of Karl Marx.
• Sustained by Wright Mills in some years later.
• Societies have a tendency of being in conflict.
• Distribution of power and wealth remains
unequal.
• Dominant groups employ power and
authority in controlling most or all the other
social structure aspects.

4. • C. Wright Mills is a contemporary
conflict theorist
• His works have made much
impact in the modern society.
• He established that conflict is an
indispensable societal aspect.
• Mills agrees with Marxist views.

5. • Cultural capital involves “proper”: attitudes
toward education, socially approved dress
and manners, and knowledge about books,
art, music, and other forms of high and
popular culture.
• Middle and upper income parents provide
their children with more cultural capital than
do working class and poverty level parents.
• Because cultural capital is vital for acquiring
an education, children with less cultural
capital have fewer opportunities to succeed
in school.

6. Criticism of
Conflict Theory