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r NHIS paper attempts to examine some of the functions of social conflict in the process of social change. I shall first deal with i some functions of conflict within social systems, more specifically with its relation to institutional rigidities, technical progress and productivity, and will then concern ourselves with the relation between social conflict and the changes of social systems. A central observation of George Sorel in his Reflections on Violence which has not as yet been accorded sufficient attention by sociologists may serve us as a convenient springboard. Sorel wrote:
Lewis A. Coser (Sun,) studied this question.