Discussion Post: The conflict perspective

Discussion Post: Conflict (Political)

The conflict perspective affirms that individuals in power are divided depending on their age, class, gender and race, among other extensive factors (Wilson et al., 2020). Politically, the conflict perspective asserts that change happens when institutions shit to restore power. The three issues discussed in this paper are poverty, voter roll purges and power struggle.

During the re-evaluation of voter rolls to remove deceased people’s names, duplicate names or people with standing felony convictions, election officials continuously discriminate against several voters’ lists (Corporate of New York, 2019). This, in turn, deletes many eligible voters’ details, often including people of colour. From the conflict perspective, voter roll purges are one of the ways to deny people of colour rights and voices at the expense of the wealthy.

Changes in political systems are often necessitated by individuals in high and medium-social classes (Wilson et al., 2020). This often is linked to their sex, age, gender, race, educational level and class. The visibility of such acts is even vivid in the contemporary world, where the older and rich make most of the final political decisions. From the conflict perspective, the government division regarding decision-making powers proves the need to introduce specific changes in the political structures to include everyone regardless of the factors discussed……Read More