Answered: According to Charles Tilly, "War…

Social Psychology (10th Edition)

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Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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According to Charles Tilly, "War Making" and "State Making" are interconnected and mutually constitutive, and that war is always a significant element of state politics. He firmly feels that wars are essential to societies. Connect this concept to a contemporary event/situation that can bolster his argument for the necessity of violence and war in society.

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As Marx had said conflict is necessary for the progression of society, opposing to the functional theorists who wanted peace and harmony stating that will maintain balance in society, the conflict theorists especially Marx stated that when the have's and the have-not's wage conflict against one another, by overthrowing one the other gains power, and in this way, society progresses. As this question asks, in my opinion, war and violence are necessary, in order to bring in peace and to ward off the negative and corrupt forces, war is necessary for contemporary society as well.