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211 CHAPTER 7 Conflict andCritical TheoriesPart I: Conflict theory : Lewis Coser(1913 2003)Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 )Randall Collins (1941 )What do an argument, the Enron case, bidding on eBay, the civil rights movement,and the U. S. invasion of Iraq have in common? They are all forms of Conflict withvarious levels of intensity and violence. We may only think of war or arguments asconflict, but what the theorists in this first part of the chapter want to point out isthat society is rife with Conflict Conflict is a general social form that isn t limitedto just overtly violent situations. More than that, Conflict doesn t necessarily ripsociety apart.

Basic Sources of Conflict First, we want to consider what brings on social conflict in the first place. As I pointed out in the definition of conflic t theory, most social conflict is based on the

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