ABSTRACT
Few people, sociologists or otherwise, deny that there are conflicts in industry. Discussion of the studies will link the sociological aspects of our problem with its psychological dimension and at the same time add some color and verisimilitude to statements which as assertions, assumptions, and hypotheses remain by necessity vague, abstract, and, perhaps, unconvincing. The dichotomies of post-capitalist society may have little to do with those asserted by K. Marx: there is no disagreement between sociological and public opinion. Bureaucracies are moreover characteristic not only of the political system but also of all other institutional orders and associations of post-capitalist society. Many of the features characteristic of the political class structure of Western societies is both a consequence and an index of a process which, without undue extension of the term, might be described as political democracy. Conflict theory would suggest that this kind of political organization would make for extremely violent political conflicts as well as sudden structure changes.
