Conflict Theory

It is the nature of human to be self oriented and just focus on themselves. I believe that if you do not love you first, who is going to love you for you? I am selfish and am very proud of it as, if I do not take care of me, who is going to take care of me?Therefore this theory suits me well.  In society we are always fighting for scarce resources thus there is always conflicts in the society. For example one day I was on a bus there was one seat and a pregnant woman was coming in the bus and a man came in before her and took the seat. Everyone started cursing out the man as he was supposed to give the pregnant woman the seat. This was showing a competition for scarce resource, as the seat was the resource there and it is a prime example of conflict in the society.

In families relationships are more intense as the breaking up of family is more threatening.  Family members usually tolerate a higher degree of conflict as they do not want to hurt each other. Most times the conflict can be either internal or external conflict. My mother always tell me if you do not resolve conflict it will always be there or it will pops up at the least opportune time. She also said there can be benefits from conflicts. For example at my family reunion there was a big conflict as persons had differences from years before and did not talk about them. Someone said something and then everyone started cursing out each other. My grandmother had to intervene and let each person express him or herself and resolve the issue. This was an internal conflict as it took place in the family.

I believe there will always be conflict whether we are like it or not. There is no prefect society and so conflict has to be there for society to function properly. This theory came about from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who believes that conflict has to manifest itself for persons to see inequalities in the society or families.