1. Fall 2010

2.  Society the thing consists of distributions of interests and distributions of power and society the happening involves interactions among these.  Language, ideas, culture are important playing field on which society happens  Imagine there’s no conflict…it isn’t hard to do, but it’s completely unrealistic…

3.  Ingredients  Genealogy and Branches  Historical Imperatives  Varieties  Frankfurt School  “Public Sociology” 1950s-60s-70s  Disciplinary Self-Critique  Collins’ Conflict Theory

4.  Genealogy and Branches  Historical Imperatives

5. 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 Critical Theory (Frankfurt School) Critical Race TheoryFeminist TheoriesQueerTheories “Conflict Theory” “Public Sociology” Critical Etc. TheoryCritical Legal Studies R. Collins Conflict Sociology

6. 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 Marx (class struggle) (ideology) (consciousness) (critical, false) Clausewitz (1780-1831) War…policy… other means Machiavelli (1469-1527) Hobbes (1588-1679) Darwin (1809–82) Spencer (1820-1903) Goffman (1922-82) (impression mgt) Erikson (1902-94) (identity crisis) Simmel (1858-1918) Conflict as sociation Weber (power) (class, status, power) (legitimacy) Freud Horkheimer (1895-1973) Adorno (1903-69) Malthus (1766 –1834) Critical Race TheoryFeminist TheoriesQueerTheories Game Theory (Schellling) Mills (1916-62) Reisman (1909-2002) Collins (b1941) Critical Etc. TheoryCritical Legal Studies Russian Revolution, etc. Great Depression WWII, Cold War, 1950s Durkheim (ritual) Marcuse (1898 – 1979) Habermas (b1929)

7.  Russian Revolution, great depression, Stalin, WWII, fascism, cold war, US becomes world power, the bomb, civil rights, breakdown of colonialism

8. European socialism had three choices 1. support moderate non-revolutionary (SPD) socialists and disavow Moscow 2. accept Moscow, join communist (KPD) party, work against Weimar republic These were old choices. Recent events gave rise to 3 rd option: 3. re-examine foundations of Marxist theory, understand past, prepare for future (Jay 1973, 3).

9.  Strickland video 0:00-2:45

10.  Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations 1. Proposition: Conflict establishes and maintain identity and boundary lines of groups. 2. Proposition: Conflict is not always dysfunctional for a relationship; may even be necessary. Safety valve and signal. 3. Proposition: Conflict is not absence of relationship; conflict presumes a relationship.

11.  Exercise of power a primary social dynamic 1. Claim. Symbolic realm recursively entwined with material 2. Claim: Bases of legitimacy change over time. 3. Claim: State as legitimate monopoly on force. 4. Claim: Organization as crystallization of power relations.

12.  Psychic struggle/conflict as “natural” 1. Claim. (Self) deception, repression, denial as common 2. Claim: Stages of development with external identifications. 3. Claim: Self can be irrational.

13.  Struggle for survival, competition for resources

14.  Social life as impression management and strategic interaction

15.  Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)

16.  Frankfurt School  “Public Sociology” 1950s-60s-70s  Disciplinary Self-Critique  Collins’ Conflict Theory

17.  Summer 1922 group of independent thinkers convene to discuss Marxism.  Inspired organizing formal setting for same purpose.  1923 Felix Weil, well-to-do political science PhD, helped to set up an endowment and found the Institute for Social Research affiliated with the University of Frankfurt. (Jay 1973, 8)