SOC 100 1st Edition Lecture 4Theories Cont. Conflict Perspective:- focuses on the conflict over scare and valued resources and the strategies advantaged groups used to create and protect the social arrangements from which they benefit. Conflict theorists: focus on conflict as an inevitable fact of social life and as the most important agent for social change.- Physical confrontations- Exploitation- Disagreement- Tension- Hostility- Direct competition*who benefits from a particular social arrangement and at whose expense?Façade of legitimacy: An explanation to justify the existing social arrangements that downplays or dismisses any possibility that the arrangement advantages some groups over others.EX: The TV show Undercover BossCEO’s and low wage workersSymbolic Interaction Perspective: - focus on the social interaction and related concepts of self awareness, reflexive thinking, symbols, and negotiated order.Social Interaction: Everyday encounters in which people communicate, interpret, and respond to one another’s words and actions: 1. self awareness2. shared symbols3. negotiated orderself awareness: occurs when a person is able to observe and evaluate the self from another’s viewpoint. Shared Symbols: Symbol: Any kind of object to which people assign a name, meaning, or value. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Negotiated order: the sum of existing expectations and newly negotiated