Consequences of Treating an Employee as an Independent Contractor. If you classify an employee as an independent contractor and you have no reasonable basis for doing so, you may be held liable for employment taxes for that worker (the relief provisions, discussed below, will not apply).
1 While conflict theory originated from the work of Karl Marx (1818â1883), there is not singular conflict theory but rather conflict theories. 2  The basic assumption of conflict theory is an individual or group will dominate others and actively avoid being dominated.  Conflict theory grew out of critique of functionalism.
Structural conflict theory states that conflicts in society happen because of claims for the same resource. As a results, various structured groups fight against one another.ulture conflict is a theory based on the idea that different cultures and classes have different values, beliefs and goals. When these different cultures with distinct percep â¦ tions of life and the social structure come together; they will always clash against one another.