Conflict or Order

Crystal Weigel November 7, 2000 “Conflict or Order: Satisfaction With Everyday Life in the US” Introduction The motivation of this attitude survey is to test structural-functional model and the social conflict model for how society works in the United States. The social-functional paradigm is “a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability”. Basically this is an idea that our lives are guided by stable …showed first 75 words of 394 total…

…showed last 75 words of 394 total…satisfied with the educational system in America, 38% replied they were satisfied. *The results of the six people interviewed are included in Table 1 for purposes of reliability analysis. They vary greatly from the class data and show a much lower satisfaction level than the class data. TABLE 1 Life Areas Class Sample Personal sample Salary Satisfaction 38% 0% Work Satisfaction 38% 0% Work Satisfaction 46% 17% Work Satisfaction 48% 67% Family-intangible Satisfaction 75% 67% Family-intangible Satisfaction 76% 67% Objective-social relations Satisfaction 32% 0% Educational Satisfaction 38% 0% Over-all Total Satisfaction 49% 19% Number of Subjects 6 84