The city and social conflict

Abstract

From the shapeless uprisings of old to the mutually limited conflicts of this age. the paper maintains that the history of social conflict is to be understood in terms of the changes that take place in the way that people group together, this grouping being subject to symbolic and economic shifts and that these are the proper subject for any history of developed and developing nations. The paper takes pains however to admit that there were primitive conflicts that were more than mere mayhem and that those of our days have been known to go beyond the previously agreed limits for them. Present day Social Change in both the advanced and advancing countries is bringing into being a new model of city tied in with an interchange network the mesh of which represents what is neither more nor less than a universal city set up in which there are unit cities of varying importance to that overall organization. Conflict type in the long term is here seen to be subject to the solutions found or not for the graver sort being faced in these times. Were things to become set within their present day model, it is thought that cities would become places wherein national and intemational economies are controlled and that such as were not up to adapting themselves to such a role in its technological, informatic and finance activity requirements would stagnate or fall into decline, these states of decadence then being sure to give rise to unemployment and syndromes proper to underdevelopment within the poorer districts of the same.