Question

why conflict regarded as dissociative social process
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Answer 1

Answer:

These processes are quite opposite to the integrative processes. They breed contempt, tension and bring disunity among the members of a group or society. Competition, rivalry and conflict are the main disintegrative processes.

Max Weber has also included ‘communal’ relationship under this category. For him, “a social relationship is ‘communal’ if and so far as the orientation of social action, whether in the individual case or on the average, is based on the subjective feelings of parties whether affectual or traditional that they belong together”.Such relationships may be seen in religious brotherhood, personal loyalty and in national community. We shall here discuss only five fundamental types of interactions (social processes), viz., co-operation, competition, conflict, accom­modation and assimilation.