Discussion
Conflict theory arose primarily as a reaction to :
Answer: C
Conflict theory arose mainly as a reaction to structural-functionalism.
In the 1950s and 1960s, writers such as Ralf Dahrendorf, Lewis Coser and C. Wright Mills criticised the dominant structural-functionalism of Parsons for stressing consensus, order and equilibrium and neglecting power, coercion, interests and change. Conflict theory placed these at the centre of sociology.
Existentialism is a philosophy, interactionism developed alongside conflict theory as another alternative, and formalism refers to Simmel's school. None was the main target.
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