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.
In summary, conflict theory seeks to catalogue the ways in which those in power seek to stay in power. (www.wikipedia.org) Conflict theory in essence sees society existing in what is referred to as dialectics, everything in society has an opposing force which creates conflict. There is always going to be conlict between those who own the means of production or societal goods and those who struggle to get what they need.