How do conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations influence the development of the world? Consider how ethnicity an
d race, working conditions, immigration, military conflict, and economic stability impact the development of countries. Choose one country that you will study in this unit in order to analyze the role of cooperative groups and organizations in the causes and consequences of global conflicts.
The relation between human groups and their consequence in the social structure was one of the objects of study of the famous sociologist Karl Marx. Avoiding to enter into ethical questions about the morality of the systems based on his writings, it is worth noting that Marx's notes are interesting, although partial, in what concerns the idea of class struggle. For him, societies throughout history have always developed through the conflict between the dominator and the dominated, the exploiter and the exploited, or, in more objective terms, the capitalist and the proletarian. For him, the development of history is due to this antagonistic relationship. Its logic can also be applied, for example, to race, since in the case of America, for example, Africans figured as an exploited ethnicity and whites as exploiters. Or, in the question concerning the relationship between man and woman, which historically proves oppressive in certain senses.
