After completing Chapter 3, you should be able to:
- Understand how the order and conflict perspective differ in the way they approach the study of social conditions and social problems.
- Identify and discuss the eight integrative forces that, according to order theorists, work to maintain order in American society.
- Identify the structural forces that serve to segment American society and explain how they influence social conflict and social change.
- Discuss the myth of "peaceful progress" and the role it places in our understanding of society and the forces of conflict and change in America.
