This document discusses conflict theory and consensus theory in sociology. Conflict theory, proposed by Karl Marx, views society as fragmented with groups competing for resources, leading to conflict. Consensus theorists like Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons believe societies are held together by shared norms, values, and beliefs that provide social order and cohesion. The educational system can be viewed through either lens: consensus theorists see it teaching shared values to maintain society, while conflict theorists see it perpetuating social inequalities and preserving the status quo.

1. CONFLICT AND
CONSENSUS
THEORY

2. CONFLICT
-is a clash between ideas, principles and
people
CONSENSUS
-is a general or widespread agreement
among all members of a particular society.

3. CONFLICT THEORIST
• Karl Marx
-the father of communism
-initiated Conflict Theory, an
approach of viewing the society
through the inequalities in society
that gives rise to class conflict.
-view society as fragmented into groups that
compete for social and economic resources.

4. CONSENSUS THEORIST
• EMILE DURKHEIM
-was the first ever professor
of Sociology.
-argued that society are constrained by social
facts that includes beliefs, moral codes, and
basic norms and values which are passed from
one generation to the next and shared by
individuals who make up a society.

5. CONSENSUS THEORIST
• TALCOTT PARSONS
-best know for his social action
and structural functionalism.
-views that values system is important for
keeping order in the society as individual acts
in ways.

6.  CONSENSUS THEORISTS is concerned with the
maintenance or continuation of social order in
society, in relation to accepted norms, values,
rules and regulations as widely accepted or
collectively by the society or with a particular
society itself.
 CONFLICT THEORISTS are interested in how
society’s institutions-the family, government,
religion, education, and the media-may help to
maintain the privileges of some groups and keep
others in a subservient position.

8. CONSENSUS THEORY IN THE EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM
 School teach generally accepted norms and values.
 Education System follows consensual norms and values
 Students learn to agree on how to behave in some social
situation.
 School community & Stakeholders are involve in School-Based
Management.
 Education is essential to maintain the modern workforce.

9. CONFLICT THEORY IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
 Educational System reinforces and perpetuates social
inequalities that arise from differences in class, gender,
race and ethnicity.
 Educational System preserves the status quo and push people
of lower status into obedience.
 Education works as a means by which those on power stay in
power.
 The fulfillment of one’s Education closely link to social class.
 Schools contribute to the unequal distribution of people into
jobs in society.