Functionalism sees society working exactly the same as a human body. Society is seen as a system where all its parts work together to form a whole {organism}, One thing you must understand in a body the organs work on their own and that’s how we see society.
As we could see in other countries that do not have consensus people are always fighting for their rights theirs violence and hatred filled in these places. Countries like Israel and Palestine cannot have consensus, also mainly all of the Middle East is like this absolute no consensus also Pakistani’s and Indians who fight over Kashmir {Land} theirs no consensus.
Societies, which have no social order, are very hard to maintain, big powerful countries who have strong governments do not worry about social order because they have such big strong powerful police and army who deal easily with these little problems.
I am now going to compare conflict with consensus, as we know conflict is where there is no agreement at all theirs no peace and always violence in these places with consensus there is a agreement so there is social order and no trouble.
Also like functionalism Marxism is a structure theory it sees the individual person as less important but sees the social structure of society as much more important.
Society is fully based on two completely different relationships these are the two economic classes. The bourgeoisie are the more ruling group these are people that own the machinery, the factories and land etc. There is also the working class who are much poorer and they work for the rulers {bourgeoisies}. There relationship between them is of complete contrast the bourgeoisies have much higher status so the relationship is not equal mainly because the bourgeoisie try to get maximum output from lowest possible cost.
Consensus and conflict are kind of the same because they share the same viewpoints on structural theories, which really mean they look at the structure of the society before making a judgment. They are both structural perspectives son they are the same, but then again you have to see consensus is an agreement and conflict is when there is no agreement.
The social action theorist argues very much that society is the product of people coming together in merely social groups.
I have come to a conclusion by analysing out all the differences and comparison between consensus, conflict and social action theories. In this essay I compared consensus, conflict and social action theory and I have come to a conclusion that all these differ in many ways. Both the conflict and consensus are structural theories and look at society from perspectives view. Where as finally the social action theory focuses on how the individual changes society.
