Two examples: Military airplanes: The Air Force, Navy, and Army all design, order, train independently of one another. Why? Isn’t that rather expensive to have three branches of the service design similar airplanes? Commercial Passenger Airline Travel within the United States: First---Chaos Second---Regulation Third---Deregulation Fourth---Partial Regulation Even though Spencer was not a conflict theorist--one can see traces of conflict ideas within his work.
Conflict from outside the “society” has an impact on the internal workings of a society. Refer to Coser (1977:93-94) read sections on “militant” and “industrial”
Discuss the positive impact of WWII on Japan, German, and France. Refer to the movie, “The Mouse that Roared” (with Peter Sellers)