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.
In sociology, sociological theories are statements of how and why particular facts about the social world are related. They range in scope from concise descriptions of a single social process to paradigms for analysis and interpretation.ocial conflict is the struggle between segments of society over valued resources. From the perspective of social conflict theory, in the West, by the nineteenth century, a small population had become capitalists.