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 Conflic theory_ Dealing with social inequality





In this blogging, I'll try to deal with conflict theory.
The given wiki was a bit short, so I searched for other documents and did some research on it.

As a result of investigating the theory of conflict, one of the most interested thing that I thought was the social inequality phenomenon.
 Especially, in this concept I  could dealt with more deeply because it was covered in the previous wiki.

In this blogging, I try to summarize this part and try to express my opinion


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Index
 1. Social Inequality Phenomenon
     1) Factor of occurrence
           (1) Personal factors
           (2) social factors

     2) Influence
     3) Conflicting Perspective on Social Inequality
     4) My interpretation of conflict theory


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Representative of Conflict Theorist:  Karl_Marx





1 Social Inequality Phenomenon


Differences in access to the possibilities of social minimum value such as education, income, erasure, power among members of society




1) Factor of occurrence



 
(1) Personal factors: Difference in ability and effort


 
(2) social factors: the scarcity of social values, the opportunity to acquire the scarcity values ​​that are structurally different






2) Influence




 
(1) It may lead to differences in lifestyle, values, and thinking style among members of society


 
(2) Increase social efficiency by inducing competition among members of society, but they also cause conflicts and hinder social integration.





3) Conflicting Perspective on Social Inequality




 
In the conflict theory, I think that the cause of social inequality is due to the distribution structure created by the dominant group for the domination, the maintenance of the domination relation and the reproduction of the class.The standard of value distribution reflects the consensus of the dominant group, such as power, property, and family background, and is a favorable standard for the dominant group.This leads to social conflict and confrontation by fixing the inequality structure, and social function of suppressing the rise of the members of the group is carried out by distributing the social scarcity value irrespective of individual ability.




(4) My interpretation of conflict theory



I was able to think that the stratification of society might be the structure of society through social inequality.


 This diffusion of negative perceptions was inevitable as long as the criteria of distribution of social scarcity values ​​were already made favorable to the dominant group and the wealth of the wealth within it was naturally guaranteed.

Therefore, the conflict theory emphasized the necessity of transformation of the unequal social structure itself in order to solve these problems.

 Poverty is the result of an unequal distribution structure rather than a result of an individual's effort or lack of ability.

 To overcome this, it is necessary to consider the social structural dimension rather than individual efforts, Respectively.

It is useful to find the problem of social structure through conflict theory.

However, since there is no world in which there is only conflict, I thought that it is also necessary to look at society from various perspectives.


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