"Class conflict" refers to the social tension or disagreement that arises between different social classes or groups within a society. It occurs when there are economic and social inequalities, where one class may have more power, resources, or privileges than another. This conflict can manifest in various forms, such as unequal distribution of wealth, access to opportunities, or differing perspectives on societal issues.
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In social realist painting of the 1930s, a work was judged by what it had to say
about class conflict.
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Consider the role of
class conflict in the book: Jung's feelings of shame over his obvious wealth; Jung versus Freud; Acton versus Banwell; Chong versus Leon; Malley and Betty, etc..
But they also hint plainly at
current class conflicts: «We want what you have» would be a decent motto for the Occupy Movement.
Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took
class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.
Hopf expanded on questions
around class conflict present in the work of Spence, with a specific focus on unpicking the aesthetics of class.
On political topics he is more conventional and more sensible: the Progressives sought to control big business and to
end class conflict.
While the soldiers of the radicals»
class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.
Though class conflict and rural / urban divides are not one and the same (there are people of all classes in small towns and in cities), their overlap exposes profound class and cultural divisions in America.
The little volume does not reflect the sociological sophistication of his earlier volume Christianity and the Social Crisis 4 which dealt realistically from a hopeful socialist perspective
with class conflict.
If partisan differences have usually been ideological in these democracies, it is because they vigorously
suppress class conflict and lack the ethnoreligious heterogeneity of the postcolonial world.
As Stanley Baldwin recognised in the 1920s, the unions and the Labour party were to be welcomed as a way of
averting class conflict.
What begins as a sharply funny comedy of
class conflict turns more political, and even poetic, in this latest film by the creative team of Miguel Arteta and Mike White.
Per the J.G. Ballard novel it's based on, High - Rise depicts the collapse of this microcosmic community, as
class conflict boils over into total class warfare.
A well - intentioned historical drama that unfolds in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun features a couple strong lead performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, plus the sort of high stakes and stark
socioeconomic class conflict that often lends itself to engaging adaptation.
How student or family selection unfolds — what kinds of children select what kinds of schools — is assumed to interact with the relative effectiveness of chosen schools under both neoclassical and
class conflict theoretical perspectives.
Union officials may
enjoy class conflict rhetoric, but they represent employees who can not prosper unless their employers, who pay the salaries and arrange for the benefits, are at least holding their own.
Eliminated class conflicts for time and space and ensured staff and patient participation for nine different group classes such as the back, knee, pool and lumbar stabilization class
The second strand is informed by liberation theologies, with their emphasis
on class conflict and the need to overthrow present systems.
The household's patron - employee dynamics are suddenly thrown into turmoil, reflecting women's perspectives — those of writer - director Anna Muylaert, as well as those of the film's well - conceived, scripted and realized female characters — on
current class conflict, as it impacts women, in a most compelling and compassionate way.
From its use of static takes, to structuring a familial drama
around class conflict, to homing in on a family's swimming pool as its central metaphor, The Second Mother borrows shamelessly from La Ciénaga.
The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues
of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.
Representative thinkers of the conflict model are Dahrendorf, Rolf, Class and
Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1959); Coser, Lewis A.
The end result is
class conflict and civic strife.
Many liberation theologians have largely accepted a Marxian interpretation of
class conflict and the causes of poverty.
Although churches have never fully lived up to this ideal and have often sadly departed from it, the Christian gospel has always been a rebuke to race prejudice, national or
class conflict, and every other form of man - made division.
Unlike all previous social revolutions, the communist revolution abolishes
the class conflict at the heart of the economic substructure and thereby obviates future revolutions.
Partly because of the fascist rejection of
class conflict, and also because of their rejection of the premise that all people are equal.
Alienation is due to exploitation and the production of surplus value, and to
the class conflict that ensues.
The left - wing Radical Independence movement has presented the referendum as a «
class conflict» in which the rich promoted a «no» vote to maintain their privilege.
Heath went onto to lose two elections in February and October of 1974 to the Harold Wilson and Labour governed for the next five years presiding over industrial strife, inexorable decline,
class conflict, an IMF - bailout and the «winter of discontent».
But as it stands, one of the greatest causes of
class conflict is the party tribalism linked with our current two - party system.
Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to
class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.
Those in the party like Jim Murphy attempt to bury politics with a language of partnership and cooperation, which seeks to deny conflict of any kind, (including, of course,
class conflict).
A pointed satire on athletic ambition and
class conflict that's fueled by a biting sense of humor and a couple of knockout performances.
Grounded in Gerwig's hometown Sacramento, California (also seen in another NYFF hit Griffin Dunne's bio-doc of his aunt Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold), Lady Bird flies through familiar hurdles of wrong boys, mean girls and BFF betrayal with amusing twists and sensitive portrayals of
class conflict.
Class conflict is prevalent: One of our heroes is an aristocrat and easily befriends his warden.
It probes with humor, warmth and depth all of the following: a volatile mother - daughter relationship, the financial strains of college, high school theater, the navigation and pursuit of authentic friendship, the navigation and pursuit of one's authentic self,
class conflict, sexual tension, the special angst of the early aughts.
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Many went with his selective vision; others found his film fatally tone - deaf to complexities of American race relations,
class conflicts and police resistance movements.
Stating that history is determined by the struggle between the ruling classes (the exploiters) and the oppressed classes (the exploited), nineteenth century German philosopher Karl Marx blamed poverty and starvation on the evils of capitalist society and declared that
class conflict could only be ended by the overthrow of capitalism and the building of a...
The consequence of this has included a rise in the cases of intra-community violence with the disposed and frustrated youth turning against those perceived to be well to do within the rural areas or what Ruteere refers to as «
class conflict» (October, 11, 2012).