Activity 2

Theoretical approaches to social problems

Comparison between Conflict orientation and Feminist orientation. 

• Feminist orientation focuses on attempts to expose how gender systems function and ethical considerations, while conflict orientation focuses on competition between groups within society for limited resources. Society is characterised by pervasive inequality based on social class, race, gender, and other factors. Far-reaching social change is needed to reduce or eliminate social inequality and to create an egalitarian society. For a feminist approach, it opposes injustice by advocating the need to give women a voice that has been ignored in research, such as by promoting women to executive roles in large companies.
• While feminist theory has many variants, they all emphasize that society is rife with gender inequality, with women being the inferior sex in many aspects of social, political, and economic life. The final parallel between conflict and feminist approaches is that they both address the same social issues, namely, changing the structure of how society operates.

Contrast or difference between Conflict orientation and Feminist orientation.       

• The contrast between conflict orientation and feminist orientation is that feminist orientation Incorporates female values and perspectives into research it focuses on subjective, empathetic, inclusive, relational and feelings while conflict orientation focuses on all people , when it comes to controlling conflict tension it is needed to reduce or eliminate social inequality and to create an egalitarian society needs are met. It attempts to explain the social inequalities between genders from the female perspective. While conflict theory focuses on the competition between groups within society over limited resources. Conflict theory views social and economic institutions as tools of the struggle. The feminist theory argues that change is needed to make sure that everyone's between groups or classes, used to maintain inequality and the dominance of the ruling.