conflict and critical theories
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Conflict and Critical Theories
Fall 2010
inanutshell
Society the thing consists of distributions of interests and distributions of power and society the happening involves interactions among these.
Language, ideas, culture are important playing field on which society happens
Imagine there’s no conflict…it isn’t hard to do, but it’s completely unrealistic…
Outline
Ingredients Genealogy and Branches Historical Imperatives
Varieties Frankfurt School “Public Sociology” 1950s-60s-70s Disciplinary Self-Critique Collins’ Conflict Theory
Ingredients
Genealogy and Branches Historical Imperatives
Genealogy and Branches
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
Critical Theory (Frankfurt School)
Critical Race Theory Feminist Theories QueerTheories
“Conflict Theory” “Public
Sociology”
Conflict theories
Critical Etc. TheoryCritical Legal Studies
R. CollinsConflict Sociology
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
Marx(class struggle)
(ideology)(consciousness)(critical, false)
Clausewitz(1780-1831)
War…policy…other means
Machiavelli(1469-1527)
GenealogyHobbes
(1588-1679)
Darwin(1809–82)
Spencer(1820-1903)
Goffman(1922-82)
(impression mgt)
Erikson(1902-94)
(identity crisis)
Simmel(1858-1918)Conflict as
sociation
Weber(power)
(class, status, power)(legitimacy)
Freud
Horkheimer(1895-1973)
Adorno(1903-69)
Malthus(1766 –1834)
Critical Race Theory Feminist Theories QueerTheories
Game Theory(Schellling)
Mills(1916-62)
Reisman(1909-2002)
Conflict theories
Collins (b1941)
Critical Etc. TheoryCritical Legal Studies
Russian Revolution, etc. Great
Depression
WWII, Cold War, 1950s
Durkheim(ritual)
Marcuse(1898 – 1979)Haberm
as(b1929)
Historical Imperatives (1920-50) Russian Revolution, great
depression, Stalin, WWII, fascism, cold war, US becomes world power, the bomb, civil rights, breakdown of colonialism
WWI, Bolshevik Revolution Change Playing
Field for Left European socialism had three choices1. support moderate non-revolutionary (SPD)
socialists and disavow Moscow
2. accept Moscow, join communist (KPD) party, work against Weimar republic
These were old choices. Recent events gave rise to 3rd option:
3. re-examine foundations of Marxist theory, understand past, prepare for future
(Jay 1973, 3).
Strickland video 0:00-2:45
Simmel Conflict and the Web of Group
Affiliations
1. Proposition: Conflict establishes and maintain identity and boundary lines of groups.
2. Proposition: Conflict is not always dysfunctional for a relationship; may even be necessary. Safety valve and signal.
3. Proposition: Conflict is not absence of relationship; conflict presumes a relationship.
Weber Exercise of power a primary social
dynamic
1.Claim . Symbolic realm recursively entwined with material
2.Claim: Bases of legitimacy change over time.
3.Claim: State as legitimate monopoly on force.4.Claim: Organization as crystallization of power
relations.
Freud and Erikson Psychic struggle/conflict as “natural”
1.Claim . (Self) deception, repression, denial as common
2.Claim: Stages of development with external identifications.
3.Claim: Self can be irrational.
Malthus & Darwin Struggle for survival, competition for
resources
Goffman Social life as impression
management and strategic interaction
von Neumann &Morgenstern
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
Varieties
Frankfurt School “Public Sociology” 1950s-60s-70s Disciplinary Self-Critique Collins’ Conflict Theory
Frankfurt School
Summer 1922 group of independent thinkers convene to discuss Marxism.
Inspired organizing formal setting for same purpose.
1923 Felix Weil, well-to-do political science PhD, helped to set up an endowment and found the Institute for Social Research affiliated with the University of Frankfurt.
(Jay 1973, 8)
Institute for Social Research (1923-33)
Horkheimer & Adorno
Habermas
Public Sociology 1950s & 60s
Disciplinary Self-Critique
Collins’ Conflict Sociology
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