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14 UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY are well aware of the range of conflicts Activity 7 that exist in society. The scale and Organise a debate for and against the idea that competition is a nature of different conflicts that occur necessary good in society and is a are however different. must for development. Draw upon Activity 9 school experience to write an essay on the manner that competition Think of the different kinds of impacts on different students. conflicts that exist in the world today. This ideology assumes that At the widest level there are conflicts between nations and blocs of nations. individuals compete on an equal basis, Many kinds of conflicts also exist i.e. that all individuals are positioned within nations. Make a list of them equally in the competition for education, jobs, or resources. But as and then discuss in what ways they are similar and in what ways the earlier discussions on stratification different. or inequality showed, individuals are placed differentially in society. If the greater number of children in India do A widely held commonsense perception is that conflicts in society not go to school or drop-out sooner are new. Sociologists have drawn rather than later, then they remain out attention to the fact that conflicts of the competition entirely. change in nature and form at different stages of social development. But Activity 8 conflicts have always been part of any society. Social change and greater Identify different occasions when individuals have to compete in our assertion of democratic rights by society. Begin with admission to disadvantaged and discriminated school onwards through the different groups make the conflict more visible. stages of life. But this does not mean that the causes for conflict did not exist earlier. The quote in the box emphasises this. C ONFLICT AND C OOPERATION The term conflict implies clash of Developing countries are today interests. We have already seen how arenas for conflict between the old conflict theorists believe that scarcity and the new. The old or der is no of resour ces in society produces longer able to meet the new forces, nor the new wants and aspirations conflict as groups struggle to gain access to and control over those of the people, but neither is it resources. The bases of conflict vary. moribund — in fact, it is still very It could be class or caste, tribe or much alive. The conflict produces much unseemly argument, discord, gender, ethnicity or religious confusion, and on occasion, even community. As young students you Reprint 2026-27