Functionalist Perspective: Emile Durkheim, integration, equilibrium, moral discipline.
- focusing on how society creates and maintains social order, society is like a human body: organs with specific functions work together in balance to maintain the whole. (changes slow, and evolving)
- Society is integrated through some common values or morals among its members.
Conflict Theory: (karl Marx) Considers how society is held together by power of coercion for the benifit of those in power.
- social change comes from class conciousness of workers.
- Conflict arrises from unequal positions held by members of society.
- Society consists of different interest groups fighting over scarce economic resources, social prestige, political power of society.
- The authority to impose ones values on society.
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