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Conflict Theory:
 * importance of interests over norms and values. The pursuit of interests generates various types of conflicts that become normal aspects of social life rather then different or abnormal occurrences. Everything becomes driven by resource competition, which becomes the norm


 * This causes a distinction between two classes, the industrialists and the working class. The industrialists, the ones that make up the small percentage, own the means of production. The working class are those earning their wages by selling their labor. Problems become noticeable because the upper class is looking to get the most production possible for the least amount of money. A Surplus value is created; the profit industrialists hold onto caused by workers producing more then the employers actually need to repay the cost of hiring laborers.


 * Marx believed that the gap between industrialists and the laborers would continue to grow. The industrialists would become more and more wealthy, and the laborers continue to move towards poverty

Stratification:
 * could be looked as the inequalities among individuals and groups

Other:
 * Some small grammatical errors.

Resources

Giddens, Anthony, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. Introduction to Sociology. 7th ed. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2009. Print.

Gordon Marshall. “Conflict Theory”. A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. 	Encyclopedia.com. 3 Mar. 2010. 

http://courses.washington.edu/anth457/stratif.htm