Conflict Theory In The 1800's

The way a functionalist sees the world is a different group of people with different backgrounds and all that work together in a harmonious state keeping society in balance. The major theorist of this perspective is Durkheim who came to the idea that social institutions are the ones who keep society going as it is. In this perspective is assumed that social institutions are fair and that any problem society faces it would be overcome and the balance will always be restored. Now looking at what happened at the University of Missouri from this perspective it would seem as an obstacle. The obstacle being that the students targeted are from an out-group because they are from a different race they are seem as a stranger. This makes it harder for …show more content…
The major theorist of this perspective is Karl Marx who developed this theory during the 1800’s. His argument was that there will always be conflict between the workers (the oppressed) and the owners (the oppressor) because of the workers need of survival and the owners exploiting their workers as much as possible to get more wealth. On this particular issue the oppressed are the African American students who are being attacked in their college dorms and the oppressor would be the president of the class who even after being notified of what was happening he didn’t do anything. So from a conflict theory perspective it makes sense that they would sabotage their games to throw off their oppressor because they have become kind of cultural aware of what it happening and they want to change. But the conflict will continue to exist if we follow this perspective because the out-groups will continue to be oppressed because they’re not seem as