Unit 1. Conflict and Power in Everyday Contexts
Section outline
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This section replaces the most common account of conflict, that it is a clash between personalities, with one that reads conflict as a situation organised by power.
By the end of it you will be able to
- identify how power, hierarchy and inequality shape a conflict,
- distinguish its interpersonal, institutional and structural levels,
- apply three questions to any situation: who set its terms, who carries the cost of disagreement, and what is being treated as normal.
The section has three parts: a fifteen-minute video lecture, a ten-minute reading on hierarchy, norms and institutional authority, and a twenty-minute individual task in which you apply the three questions to one scenario. Allow forty-five minutes in total. The task is typed into a text box in Moodle and needs no preparation.
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Students mustMark as done
A fifteen-minute lecture on conflict as a social phenomenon shaped by power and inequality, built around two everyday cases and three questions you can put to any situation (15 min).
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Students mustMark as done
A ten-minute reading on norms, hierarchy and authority
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Students mustMark as done
Apply the three questions from the lecture to one of three scenarios, in a tick-box section and three short answers, typed into Moodle
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