Although both functionalism and conflict study large societies, they do not align on their view what society is. Conflict theorists believe that individuals are shaped by having power, being pressured, and forced by authority. Conflict does not mean individuals are violent, but have disputes over resources, housing, and food or tension between groups competing for political positions, controversial social stances, and war involvement. In addition to the Karl Marx view of inevitability of the struggle between social classes, sociologists have realized that conflict is not just a single phenomenon, but is part of everyday life in all societies (Schaefer 14). Conflict is not only in social competition, but also in economic standing that demonstrates the inequality of a capitalist economy that unfairly privileges the rich, who have the power to control the system and use it to their advantage resulting in stratification of a low class society who have none to little power of improving their circumstances. Inequality is not only seen in social competition or economic standing, but in gender biases of the feminist
Although both functionalism and conflict study large societies, they do not align on their view what society is. Conflict theorists believe that individuals are shaped by having power, being pressured, and forced by authority. Conflict does not mean individuals are violent, but have disputes over resources, housing, and food or tension between groups competing for political positions, controversial social stances, and war involvement. In addition to the Karl Marx view of inevitability of the struggle between social classes, sociologists have realized that conflict is not just a single phenomenon, but is part of everyday life in all societies (Schaefer 14). Conflict is not only in social competition, but also in economic standing that demonstrates the inequality of a capitalist economy that unfairly privileges the rich, who have the power to control the system and use it to their advantage resulting in stratification of a low class society who have none to little power of improving their circumstances. Inequality is not only seen in social competition or economic standing, but in gender biases of the feminist