Karl Marx VS Ralf Dahrendorf Conflict Theories

KARL MARX

1. Concerned on community

2. Concerned with conflict among group that had different relationship to the means of production.

* social institutions such as family and government are dependent on the mode of operation in a given community.

3. All group in society are divided into those who have means of production and who have not.

For example: proletariat bourgeoist
(workers,those who have not) (property owner, those who have)

* The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes in life.

4. Conflict continuously happen to win material wealth.

* Both group use the sources of production such as resources, technology and labor in order to produce good and services to gain wealth.

RALF DAHRENDORF

1. Concerned on society

2. Concerned with conflict among social class in term of unequal distribution of authority.

3. All group in society are divided into those who have authority and who do not.

For example: authority group subordinate group
(interested to preserve status for quo) (interested to change)

* those in the authority group who have power will stay in power and have potential in dominated the interest group.

4. Conflict continuously happen to gain legitimacy.

* Subordinate groups will struggle with privileged group in order to change and set the authority.
* Conflict leads to structural change as a result of a change in dominance relations.