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-Marxâs theory that in any capitalist society there is eternal conflict between the owners of the means of production and the workers. Conflict view of deviance-The view that purports that equality in a capitalist society is an illusion.ymbolic interactionist perspective-A sociological framework that views society as a product of the everyday social interactions of individuals. Taboo-A norm so strongly held by a society that its violation brings extreme disgust.