Since money and power are what make up a conflict theorist, stratification would be detrimental in their perspective. In the article “Sociological Theories and Global Inequality”, “conflict theorists argue that stratification is dysfunctional and harmful to our society. According to conflict theory, social stratification benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor” (“Sociological Theories and Global Inequality”, n.d.). Thus, it creates a system of a higher and lower classes. The people who were apart of the lower class do not have the same advantages than of the higher classes. Which is one of the main reason they are always at the bottom, they are not provided with the same opportunities than of the higher classes. Therefore, conflict theorists believe that this competitive system, together with the way the game is “fixed”, ends up creating and perpetuating stratification
Since money and power are what make up a conflict theorist, stratification would be detrimental in their perspective. In the article “Sociological Theories and Global Inequality”, “conflict theorists argue that stratification is dysfunctional and harmful to our society. According to conflict theory, social stratification benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor” (“Sociological Theories and Global Inequality”, n.d.). Thus, it creates a system of a higher and lower classes. The people who were apart of the lower class do not have the same advantages than of the higher classes. Which is one of the main reason they are always at the bottom, they are not provided with the same opportunities than of the higher classes. Therefore, conflict theorists believe that this competitive system, together with the way the game is “fixed”, ends up creating and perpetuating stratification