Marx's Conflict Theory & the Fundamentalist Theory (and how it applies to Indonesia today).

1.<Tab/>Name and outline one theory of social change. The Conflict Theory of social change centers upon the premise that radical change in society is constant and inevitable, as existing social conditions will always contain the beginnings for a different future. The conflict theory has its origins in the writings of Karl Marx. Working in the late nineteenth century, Marx believed that all societies were primarily influenced by their economic base, …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1301 total…Indonesian population during the New Order period. Current conditions have followed the same path. Even under Sukarnoputri's Government, family planning continues to be one of Indonesia's enduring success stories. Her Government is still in charge of providing birth control to the people, particularly in the form of "health ministry" condoms which are handed out free to Indonesia's poor. The fertility rate in Indonesia, as of 2003, is 2.5 children per woman, a far cry from 1967's figures.