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This 4 page paper examines economics and politics through the lens of social conflict theory. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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politics through the lens of social conflict, because the "social-conflict paradigm is a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and social
change" (The sociological perspective). I believe that both politics and economics are very unequal; both fields favor those with wealth and I will try to show why social-conflict is
the best approach to them. Discussion Social conflict theory is often associated with Karl Marx, since his political thinking is based on class struggle. Marx believed that
there are two classes of workers in the capitalist system, the proletariat, who work for wages; and the bourgeoisie, who own the businesses or have the capital (Class conflict).
The proletariat "do not own or have control over the means of production" and so they must sell their labor in order to survive (Class conflict). The capitalists, who
own the means of production "subsist be exploiting the workers (Class conflict). There is thus a "socio-economic imbalance" between those with wealth and power and those who are poor
and powerless (Class conflict). Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, wrote that since there were fewer employers than employees, they could combine more easily, while it forbade
workmen to gather. There were no acts of parliament forbidding collusion among employers to "lower the price of work: but many against combining to raise it" (Class conflict).
Today we talk about living paycheck-to-paycheck; it appears things havent changed much: "Many workmen could not subsist a week ... without employment. In the long run the workman
may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate" (Class conflict). Further, the "interests of the wealthy are
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