Sociological Conflict Perspective

Functionalist perspective is a perspective where everyone contributes to society. There is an approach that emphasizes the contributions made by each part of the society. In this film I made a connection, a functionalist perspective where David (Bud Parker) contributes to help put out the tree that was caught on fire. He contributed to help the fire-fighters because in Pleasantville, there were no such thing as ‘fires’. So when he helped them out, by showing them how to use the water hose he became a hero to the society. Later that day when people heard about his outrageous action they wanted in on how he knew about the fire and what to do about it. Another functionalist perspective I had was when later in the

The movie “The Blind Side” represents the conflict theory of sociological perspective. This movie is based on the story of Michael Oher, who was thirteen-year, homeless, African American teenager. His mother was a drug addict and he did not know his real father. He is taken by a white well to do family Touhys’ who helped him to fulfill his potential. The other hand, his presence leads Touhys’ family lives leads to some insightful self-discoveries of their own.

There are roughly 800,000 people living within the United States that is under the protection of an executive order during the Obama administration called Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. These children, commonly referred to as “Dreamers,” have grown up in the United States. They attended elementary school here, many graduated high school here, and many went on to become successful adults living in the United States, but as of September 5th, 2017 the DACA program was shut down by the Trump administration, pending a trial in Congress. This means that those hundreds of thousands of individuals living under the DACA arm will no longer be legal residents in the United States.

Going into prison, a man becomes institutionalized from the outside world. The life that they once lived is now different from the life they live. The functionalism theory is a sociological perspective that can be described as a society that is built where one’s individual needs are meet. According to Talcott Parsons, societies must meet social needs in order to survive. In the prison, every man has to adapt to his surroundings and they have to know how to survive in a new, terrifying place. Andy came into prison not knowing what he was in for and he had to adapt, in order to survive. He gained friendship and started to use his knowledge to his advantage. Another example would be Brooks; he represents a key point in functionalism. After being institutionalized for fifty years, Brooks was a free man, but he had missed out on how life has changed,

Strucutral functionalism is a form of functional analysis. Functional analysis (or functionalism) is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. In fact, many of the early giants of sociology, such as Spencer, Comte, and Durkheim were functionalists. Essentially, this perspective sees society as comprised of many parts that contribute in unique ways to the operation of the whole society.

Conflict perspective is seen through the lens of someone who has power and seeks to oppress people with less power, sometime through discrimination or control (Hutchinson, 2015). Individuals who are not in the social work field would automatically assume that the conflict involves a dispute between two individuals. An issue with conflict perspective is that it has the

Introduction: The ideas of classical sociological theorists Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, played an important role in the development of sociology. These theories help explain social conflicts and struggles that have taken place in past centuries. They can also be applied to social problems today, as most of them are similar to social issues of the past or effects of past issues. Some important points covered by these theorists are the roles of rationalization, bureaucracy, religion, and suicide; these pheromones tie into each other either as one being an effect of the other, or the duality and interdependence of some.

For any international organization, understanding cultural differences is very significant in the global context. The article analyzes the role and impact of the cultural perspective when dealing with conflict in the global context. “What seems like a perfectly reasonable approach in one culture may seem ridiculous, disrespectful, inefficient, or unfair to managers from other cultures. Japanese and German managers may be uneasy with conflict resolution preferences that differ from their own.” (Adams, p.110.) The understanding that organizational and global cultures vary results in the connected research supported in several businesses in diverse fields.

The media broadcast of parents killing their children dominates local news, also known as filicide, the criminal act parents commit against their children. According to the FBI statistics about five infants under the age of 1 are killed each week in the United States. No particular geographical location exists for this type of crimes; filicide occurs everywhere and in any place. It appears that the seasons; summer, spring, winter or fall, weekend or weekday, nothing put a halt to the crime. The research noted that the most common methods of killing by parents were with “personal weapons,” such as choking, beating, or drowning. Caucasian men and women between the age of 20 to 30 middle and lower class parents are likely to commit filicide. Three sociological theories, conflict, structural functionalism and symbolic interaction explain the different aspects of the family institution and the problem of why these types of crime occur. Observation of the family, not just the infant may detect a problem before it turns into a criminal act.

The movie I chose to do my movie analysis on was Sin Nombre. I chose this movie because it stood out to me the most, mainly because of the title in Spanish. I used four concepts while analyzing this epic movie. First I applied the power elite theory to see who had the power in this power city and how they used their power. Then I used the social conflict theory to see what caused the people to get into the gangs and how the gangs acted to the people. The socialization theory is shown in the sense that the gang makes people believe that they are a part of a family when they join. The last concept I used was deviance because of all the violence that happened in the movie.

Conflict affects people by making them take action in the situation and it affects a person’s character. One way conflict affects people is to take action in the situation like what Martin Luther King Jr. did over racism to colored people. Another way conflict affects people is that it affects a person’s character like in Anne Frank when they had to live in the annex which changed their character by living in fear of being found by the Nazis.

An example of conflict perspective would be Arlene’s reaction to the homeless man she found in her garage that Trevor brought home to “pay it forward.” Arlene threatened the man with a gun and even called him names because she was clueless on his intentions and society has told her it is not normal for someone to randomly come fix your car. Also the depiction shows social conflict with the homeless/alcohol and drug abusers, being set apart and unassociated with

The company Enron was formed in 1985 after two natural gas companies, Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth merged together. Kenneth Lay, former chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas was named CEO of Enron and a year later, Lay was assigned to the chairman of Enron. A few years later, Enron launched a website to allow customers to buy stock for Enron, making it the largest business site in the world. The growth of Enron was rapid; it was even named seventh largest company on the Fortune 500 list; however things began to fall apart in 2001. (News, 2006). In the third quarter of that same year, Enron posted an enormous loss of over $600 million in four years. This is one of the reasons why one of the top executive resigned even though he had only after six months on the job. Their stock prices fell dramatically. Eventually, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection. This caused many investors to lose money they had invested in the company and employees to lose their jobs and their investments, including their retirement funds. The filing of bankruptcy and the resignation of one of the top executives, also led to an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Committee, which proved to be one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history. (News, 2006). All former senior executives stood trial for their illegal practices.

Conflict theory is the theory that human behavior in social contexts is the result of conflicts between competing groups, as different social groups, be they class-, gender- or race-defined, have unequal power and access to power, yet all groups compete for limited resources. This inevitably gives rise to tension and conflict, albeit often of the subtle variety, as oftentimes the conflicts between groups have been institutionalized in society to such a degree that the conflicts and tensions are such an expected part of society that the conflict, and inequality, itself disappears from public sight, and consciousness. For example, an adherent of a world systems theory of conflict would point to the global competition for resources, particularly the inequality between rich and poor nations struggling to provide the basic necessities of life to their inhabitants, as evidence of global conflict. Conflict theories seek to explain the interactions of groups within society, and assert that social order is preserved involuntarily through the exercise of power one social class holds over another (Lindsey, 2010, 7). The conflict between groups is not always obvious or apparent, so it must be unraveled and examined in order to identify and establish the impact of such conflict on society as a whole, as well as individual members and social groupings.

This is a research about conflict which should be considered and resolute during a project. Although, six experts are from different background, there are many sufficient methods to deal with different kind of issues during the working. The great mode has used in the research is Thomas-Kilmann’s conflict mode instrument. (Thomas, K. W., & Kilmann, R. H. ,1974). There are five effective approaches are discussed. Each approaches have its positive and negative effects. Also, there are many problems that each expert should consider about themselves which can devote their effort to help finish the project successfully. Achieving mastery through a comprehensive study of all of these methods can finally bring a huge success to the whole project.