Challenges Robert Michels' argument that both oligarchy and goal displacement are inevitable in protest organizations. Shows that in the Southern Farmers' Alliance, the leadership's pursuit of its own interest in organizational permanence contributed to both the rejection of a potentially successful reform program and the demise of the…

A hypothesis (based on conflict theory) that the police are more likely to use extreme force where economic inequality is most pronounced was tested with data on killings committed by policemen in the United States. The hypothesis was found to accurately predict the number of police-caused homicides. (Author/GC)

Holds that social violence can best be understood from a perspective of inequality and conflict. Argues against previous theory that views violence by the powerful as normative and violence by the powerless as deviant. Discusses parental violence and differential rates of male and female violence from this new perspective. (GC)