Conflict Theory After Marx — Quiz

Which of the following best describes the conflict-theoretic view of normative consensus?

The Frankfurt School's founding problem was explaining which historical outcome that classical Marxism had not anticipated?

What was Dahrendorf's key theoretical move in reformulating conflict analysis?

In Mills's 'The Power Elite', which three institutional orders are identified as the source of the ruling elite?

Lewis Coser's 'The Functions of Social Conflict' drew primarily on which thinker rather than Marx?

What does Randall Collins add to the Marxian and Weberian dimensions of conflict by drawing on Durkheim and Goffman?

Which of the following is identified in the topic as a standard commitment now shared across sociology that reflects the victory of conflict-theoretic assumptions?

What was the main empirical finding of Gilens and Page's 2014 study of US policy outcomes?

Explain in your own words why Dahrendorf's generalisation of conflict theory was seen as both an advance and a limitation by subsequent scholars.

What is the 'sociological imagination' as Mills defined it, and what two tendencies in mid-century sociology did he argue it should replace?

How does Collins's concept of interaction ritual chains address the classical problem of why structurally similar groups sometimes mobilise for collective action and sometimes do not?

Trace the development of conflict theory from its Marxian origins through the Frankfurt School, C. Wright Mills, and Dahrendorf, identifying what each development preserved from and what it stripped away from classical Marxism. What, if anything, remains of the Marxian inheritance in contemporary conflict theory?