The Functions of Social Conflict

1817 LIBRARIES A. R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN action aggressive American sociologists antagonism antagonistic associations Bronislaw Malinowski central cleavage coalition common concern conflict behavior conflict situation contenders discussion disruptive dissenter distinction divergent E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD elements Elton Mayo EMILE DURKHEIM enemy engaged exist expression feelings of hostility fight flict Freud functions of conflict Georg Simmel goal group structure hence heretic hostile feelings individuals intense interaction interests internal cohesion internal conflict involvement Kurt Lewin labor leads maintain Max Weber means Mensheviks ments Merton MICHIGAN nonrealistic conflict norms occasions for conflict organization participants parties political realistic conflict rela relations relationship release renegade result Robert K Robin Williams role S. N. EISENSTADT safety-valve institutions Simmel's proposition social conflict social structure social system society sociologists Sociology sociology of conflict solidarity Talcott Parsons tend tension theory threat threatened tion total personality types of conflict unification unifying unions unity UNIVE University