Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2008
A conflict is a situation that involves a problem, a difficulty and can lead to subsequent confrontations, generally between two parties or they can be more as well, whose interests, values and thoughts observe absolutely dissimilar and opposite positions.
So that conflict can cause the exchange of opinions between two people who hold opposing interests and three things can happen, that it remains there in that discussion or evolve towards a settlement or worse of the cases provoke an armed struggle, something that we have already seen and a lot in the last time, mainly, between countries that do not manage to put an end to their conflicts of yesteryear.
The conflict can be individual, with oneself, for example, we are presented with the opportunity to change jobs for another that offers us a better remuneration, but in our current job we feel comfortable, we know the people, our boss, we know how to handle ourselves, like who says we swim like a fish in water there and thinking about a situation that requires a new beginning despite the economic benefits, undoubtedly, will generate an internal conflict situation of having to decide between two situations that they are in opposition.
But conflict can also be social, when it comes from the social structure itself. Let's start from the basis that no one is equal to anyone and that all individuals are unrepeatable beings that we have our own interests and characters which will surely differ from each other, then, starting from this it is that coexistence social will be a spectator of a good amount of conflict.
The disagreements, the economic inequalities, the claims for abuse from authority, may be some of the factors triggers of major conflicts within a society. Those who deal with it, both to explain it and to provide a solution at the same either through the integration or coercion, are the theories of social conflict, widely disseminated in the field of sociology.
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