Consequences of Treating an Employee as an Independent Contractor. If you classify an employee as an independent contractor and you have no reasonable basis for doing so, you may be held liable for employment taxes for that worker (the relief provisions, discussed below, will not apply).
1 While conflict theory originated from the work of Karl Marx (1818â1883), there is not singular conflict theory but rather conflict theories. 2  The basic assumption of conflict theory is an individual or group will dominate others and actively avoid being dominated.  Conflict theory grew out of critique of functionalism.
CONFLICT THEORY is a concept in sociology that emphasizes the political, material or standing of a social group and the socially accepted, perceived norms ascribed to them. Conflict theories highlight contrasting social structures and stratification within historically dominant ideologies.ultural differences such as ethnicity, gender, age, politics and religion are a major components of social structure. Here in America, we live in a pluralistic nation where diversity is prevalent. Every society is built on the bases of what is important for them and the survival of it's members.