Download Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory

Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that
individuals and/or groups within society have differing amounts of material and nonmaterial resources (the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their
power in order to exploit groups with less power. The two methods by which this
exploitation is done are through brute force and economics. Earlier social conflict
theorists argue that money is the mechanism which creates social disorder. The theory
further states that society is created from ongoing social conflict between various groups.
There are other theories of deviance, the functionalist theory, the control theory and the
strain theory. It also refers to various types of positive social interaction that may occur
within social relationships.
Social Information Processing (SIP) Theory is an interpersonal communication
theory that suggests that online interpersonal relationship development might require
more time to develop than traditional face-to-face relationships. Joseph Walther
developed this theory in 1992.Once established; online personal relationships
demonstrate the same relational dimensions and qualities as face to face relationships.
Online personal relationships may help facilitate relationships that would not be formed
in face to face world due to intergroup differences. With this theory the belief was that
personal communication had a great positive outcome rather than distant communication.
The theory is based on the fact that a person remembers more when there are visuals
associated with the process.
Social structure is a term frequently used in anthropology, sociology and social
theory to refer to enduring relationships or bonds between individuals or groups of
individuals. In a general sense, the term can refer to: entities or groups in definite relation
to each other, relatively enduring patterns of behavior and relationship within a society,
or social institutions and norms becoming embedded into social systems in such a way
that they shape the behavior of actors within those social systems. By the 1930s, the term
was in general use in social science, especially as a variable whose sub-components
needed to be limned out in relationship to other sociological variables. Sociologists also
distinguish between: normative structure which is a pattern of relations in given structure
between norms and modes of operations of people of varying social positions; ideal
structure is the pattern of relations between beliefs and views of people of varying social
potions; interest structure is the pattern of relations between goals and desires of people
of varying social positions; interaction structure are forms of communications of people
of varying social positions.(Abercrombie, 2000)
References
Abercrombie, N., S. Hill and B. S. Turner (2000), 'Social structure' in The Penguin
Dictionary of Sociology, 4th edition, London: Penguin, pp. 326–327.