Later in the week there will be a project assigned dealing with the three major sociological theories. Said in an industrialized society conflict arises from Authority and Power differences. People who have authority impose their values, rules, regulations, and ideas on the others.
All social behavior is done through interaction.
Interaction is needed for anything to exist. Everything is a symbol that shapes people. Lives are shaped by symbols, symbols shape people s behavior. Football players pat each other s butts, but if they pat some random person s butt they could get sued for sexual harassment. What we do is determined by how we individually interpret symbols.