Correct Answer - Option 4 : Both option A and B
Conflict theory sees social life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality.
Unlike functionalist theory, conflict theory is better at explaining social change, and weaker at explaining social stability.
Conflict theory has been critiqued for its inability to explain social stability and incremental change.
Conflict theory: A social science perspective that holds that stratification is dysfunctional and harmful in society, with inequality perpetuated because it benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor.
Socialization, according to MacIver, “is the process by which social beings establish wider and profound relationships with one another, in which they become more bound up with, and moa perceptive of the personality of themselves and of others and build up the complex structure of the nearer and wider association.”
It is through the process of socialization that the newborn individual is moulded into a social being and men find their fulfilment within society. Man becomes what he is by socialization. Bogardus defines socialization as the “process of working together, of developing group responsibility, of being guided by the welfare needs of others.”
Full or partial failure of socialization due to biological or social reasons and lack of abilities to follow the values and norms of society. The conflict between different codes when two or more codes are applicable in the same situation
