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The 19 pages that link to Conflict theory, each with the reason it gives.

• Social stratificationRelated: Conflict theory treats hierarchy as an outcome of unequal interests and control.

• SociologyBroader topic: It foregrounds inequality and struggles that functional accounts can understate.

• PluralismRelated: It highlights how unequal power can make apparent pluralism unequal in practice.

• Domestic violenceCompared with: Domestic violence is not simply ordinary conflict: abuse involves harm and control, not symmetrical disagreement.

• Structural functionalismCompared with: It challenges functionalism's emphasis on shared order by foregrounding inequality and contestation.

• Symbolic interactionismCompared with: It emphasizes structural power relations often less central in interactionist explanations.

• Talcott ParsonsCompared with: It challenges Parsons’s emphasis on shared values and system integration as sources of order.

• Intimate partner violenceCompared with: It offers a broad social framework, rather than naming a specific form of interpersonal harm.

• Labeling theoryNarrower topic: It broadens labeling questions to include whose interests rules and enforcement serve.

• Social orderCompared with: It asks whose interests an apparently stable order serves.

• Sociology of the familyCompared with: It foregrounds conflicts over authority and resources within families and society.

• Social theoryRelated: It recasts order as shaped by domination and struggles over resources.

• Sociological theoryRelated: It locates social change and inequality in conflicts between groups.

• Social relationCompared with: It foregrounds struggles that can arise within relations structured by unequal resources.

• Charles Horton CooleyCompared with: It foregrounds structural power struggles, unlike Cooley’s emphasis on primary relationships and shared social life.

• Willem Frederik HermansRelated: Hermans’s fiction frequently presents relationships as contests rather than sources of solidarity.

• History of sociologyCompared with: It disputes functionalist accounts that emphasize cohesion and the contributions of institutions.

• Saul AlinskyRelated: Alinsky used conflict as an organizing tool to expose unequal power and create pressure for negotiation.

• Theories about religionCompared with: It treats religion as potentially reinforcing domination, rather than primarily binding communities together.