hello welcome back we were talking about theory so let's talk a little bit about the other bucket you know functional of functionalism and conflict under macro theories so let's do conflict so conflict at one critical thing we have is Karl Marx of course we know that Karl Marx is a critical historical figure shaped communism his major work with Communist Manifesto you know Das Kapital the capitalist to help to shape the Soviet Union influence Stalin and Lenin you know we know that historical peace Karl Marx believed that the real conflict lies within the conflict between the wealthy and the poor the wealthy at the top of the food chain make up a small percentage but they control up tremendous amount of wealth the poor below that sort of struggle and the wealthy sort of keeps them in check so Karl Marx called this the classic class struggle between the wealthy and the poor Marx believed that this creates tremendous inequality and injustice and that people that are isolated and sort of downtrodden or are punished by the wealthy to be kept in their place now he believed in a theory called the opiate of the masses again I'm not advocating this idea but it's my job to talk about it the opium of the masses was a theory where Marx blamed some of these ideas on the early Catholic Church in Western Europe he believed that the Catholic Church really allowed Kings landlords other sort of people in power to accumulate tremendous wealth sort of on the backs of the poor how do they do that is because they believe that that the poor had to accept their fate that their fate was sort of predetermined from a higher power so he believed that the Catholic Church was sort of the opiate of the drug if you will love the poor and really did the bidding that the Catholic Church protected the wealthy to accumulate tremendous wealth and assets knowing full well that sooner or later they're going to die and they're going to have to be absolved of sin and therefore they'll tie their wealth back to the church that they've accumulated and ultimately the church wins these big vast you know properties really by keeping the separation of of haves and have-nots intact so that's part of Karl Marx's idea Max Weber is another critical thinker vapers idea I want you to know this is we talked about his idea value free science earlier you know that that well I think we did one of his theories was the idea of value free science or value neutrality that we should try to be neutral we shouldn't intervene with our own opinions we should just gather facts for facts a probably his most famous body of work is called the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism Marx I'm sorry a weber was fascinated with American culture and how we crew to be such a dominant capitalistic nation really overnight and he tied the new Protestant religions that emerged in the early American culture as sort of being the foundation for this tremendous capitalistic wealth how well he postulated that these new Protestant religions sort of had this notion of free will attached to it and that we could go out and achieve great things in other words our destiny hasn't been predetermined we control our destiny and so early Protestant religions sort of encouraged that that that growth you don't have to sort of go to you know be absolved of sin by going to a confessional you have a personal sort of relationship with your God so the second piece that was important in his theory was at early Catholicism throughout Western Europe depended upon absolution of sin and tithing your wealth to get to the next life Protestant religions believed in the tithing model that 10% of your wealth over your life course and you've done what you've done in that regard once you've accumulated that tremendous wealth you get to keep it if you've given the 10% throughout your life course you get to continue that wealth by giving it to children and your wives your family your church and that he said fueled this sort of tremendous growth in the capitalist market place in early Americana because of these are the early sort of religions the third thinker is is the notion of Charles Wright Mills so Charles Wright Mills was his theory that I need you to know is the theory of the power elite so Mills believed that not only did Marx have the pyramid bribed the wealthy at the top the big bottom part with most of the poor working class he goes a step further and calls that like the power elite is like a little dot at the top where the wealthy is sort of five hundred you know companies or individuals really control the economic and political landscape they have so much power they have so much wealth there's so much ability to influence dialog and outcomes politically socially economically that they become the power elite a couple others Harriet Martineau was a feminist sociologist and she really believed that conflict happens based upon gender and then we have the WB Dubois the Bois was most famous for his early works with looking at immigration forced immigration through slavery in early Americana and he really advocated this idea about assimilation into mainstream society in other words he argues that if you assimilate my choice if you come over by choice you take on the values of that culture much faster than for example if you are forced to assimilate by slavery you are less inclined to take on the values of that culture anyway that's sort of a quick overview of theory we looked at the idea of macro theories large-scale and we talked about those two macro theories or functionalist in conflict then we talked about micro Theory micro theory was the interactionist perspective okay hope that was helpful