conflict

In our society, there are three major theories of how our society and societies in general, work and process information. These are functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction. They can be used to understand how societies integrate themselves and socialize the members into the functioning society. Though these theories maybe very different, it is said that sometimes they can overlap or other times one of the theories be the dominant frameworks.
Functionalism, which was first described by Emile Durkheim, was a theory which stated that people from all around the society work as a whole to keep their society or country running and in cooperation. The social institutions throughout society work together to bring the society closer and stronger together. The social institutions keep citizens in-line and productive towards the unity of the society as a whole. The people, under functionalism, teach others how to behave and act in the settings of their roles, to keep them in-lin...