It is a fortunate grocer who is able to collect 80 per cent. He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts. They give you a lot of trouble to collect, and nobody else will trouble to listen. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. I beg you, sir, to collect your spirits, and to listen to me calmly.
Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups.
Key elements in this perspective are that society is structured in ways to benefit a few at the expense of the majority, and factors such as race, sex, class, and age are linked to social inequality. To a social conflict theorist, it is all about dominant group versus minority group relations.