TEACHSOC: Re: origins of "conflict theory"

[Robert Bulman]

 

Hey Rhonda,

 

I always assumed it was a term that came into use after Dahrendorf's book on class conflict in the late 50s.  I don't know if that is true.  In the world of sociology of education Randall Collins' 1971 ASR article on conflict and functional theories of educational stratification has been very influential. 

 

See you in Montreal,

Robert

 

"Rhonda F. Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

A colleague asked me the following and I thought someone on the list might have the answer.

 

I am trying to figure out the origins of "conflict theory" as an umbrella term for radical sociologists in the 1960s. Do you know the origins of the term? And when it was used and when it ceased to be used? I would suspect the immediate the origins are a backlash against big F functionalism of the Parsons kind, but that it fell into disuse by the 1970s once Marxism, feminism, etc. became viable radical theories in the discipline. Does that sound right? And is there anything you could refer me to read about it?

 

Thanks,

Rhonda

 

 

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