1. OCCURRENCES OF
CONFLICT AT MICRO LEVEL
AND MACRO LEVEL

2. MICRO LEVEL
• Focuses on individuals and their interactions
• EXAMPLE : the relationship between adult
children and their parents, or the effect of
negative attitudes on older people.
• Some criticize on micro-level theories because
they focus on what older people do rather than
on social conditions and policies that cause them
to act the way they do.

3. MICRO LEVEL PERSPECTIVE
• study of small scale structures and processes in society
• It says explanations of social life and social structures
are to be found at the individual level or in social
interaction.
• For example gray hair is a sign of wisdom in one. People
give meanings to objects then base their actions on
these meanings
• Micro level theories are role theories. For example
understanding adjustment to getting older.

4. • Include age stratification theory. It focuses upon flow of
age cohorts through the life cycle.
• social change is experienced through new patterns of
individual and small-group interaction. For example, we
can take a look at changes in intimate social groups like
couples and the family
• see how urbanization affects the nature of primary
groups. Rapid social changes at the micro level
continue to provide a fertile field of inquiry for social
scientists.
• social experience: the increasing democratization of
political life and the rise of complex bureaucratic
institutions.

5. MACRO LEVEL
• Focuses more upon social structure, social
processes and problems, and their interrelationships
• EXAMPLE : the effects of industrialization on older
people's status, or how gender and income affect
older people's well being
• This approach tends to minimize people's ability to
act and overcome the limits of social structures.

6. MACRO LEVEL PERSPECTIVES
• change produces the major social forces that shape
change throughout a society.
• changes that occur at the middle and micro
levels, where we actually experience change in our own
lives.
• These changes do not occur quickly, but they alter the
ecological order, the system of stratification, and the
social institutions of entire societies.
• Entire social classes are shaped by these macro-level

7. • change in societies throughout the world could
be given.
• Changes like these are a matter of endless
fascination to sociologists, and there have been
a variety of attempts to explain them.
• Modernization theories have a more modest
goal, seeking to explain what happens as
contemporary societies undergo industrial,
political, and urban revolutions.

8. NORMATIVES PERSPECTIVE
• rules and status exist in society to provide social control
or social order.
• Social order is necessary for survival. This perspective
focuses upon macro-level.
• example structural-functionalism, role
theory, modernization theory, and age-stratification.
• Causes of poverty, health disparities, distribution of life
Conflict perspective deals with macro and some micro
levels. chances via, social class, and gender.