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.
By Ashley Crossman. Conflict theory emphasizes the role of coercion and power in producing social order. This perspective is derived from the works of Karl Marx, who saw society as fragmented into groups that compete for social and economic resources.ccording to conflict theory, inequality exists because those in control of a disproportionate share of societyâs resources actively defend their advantages. The masses are not bound to society by their shared values, but by coercion at the hands of those in power.