Economy

• Factors causing conflict:

  • Individual differences
  • Difference in culture
  • Difference in interest
  • Difference in rapid changes in value
• Impact of conflict:

  • Increase solidarity of members
  • Fracture relationships
  • Personality changes
  • Destruction of property/life
  • Dominance of one of the parties
• Ways to handle conflict:

  • Avoid any physical/verbal conflicts
  • Adjust and adapt to the opinions of other people
  • Engage in bargaining and collaboration
• Social integration is the process of adjusting various elements in society so they become a single unit
• Conditions for social integration:

  • Members realize they are fulfilling each other's needs
  • Managed to create a shared consensus
  • Social values and norms are practiced consistently
• High homogeneity makes social integration very easy and fast to achieve
• Smaller size of a group makes social integration easier and faster to achieve
• Geographical mobility varies on how often members come and go, impacting social integration
• High effectiveness of communication makes social integration easier and faster
• Forms of social integration:

  • Normative (occurs due to norms)
  • Functional (result of certain functions in society)
  • Coercive (by means of coercion/persuasion)
• Processes of social integration:

  • Assimilation
  • Acculturation
• Factors driving social integration:

  • Tolerance of various cultures
  • Equal potential in the economic field
  • Positive attitude towards other cultures
  • Open attitude in the ruling class
  • Similarity in culture
  • Mixed marriages
  • Having a common enemy