CQ: (page 17) How would a functionalist and a social conflict theorist differ in their
interpretation of the enslavement of Africans for the plantation system of America's
South? How is this similar or dissimilar from the child labor critical question above?
What was the manifest function of slavery? How did slavery function to maintain the
equilibrium of the American South? Looking closely but still from a functionalist perspective,
what were dysfunctions of the practice and what proved to be latent functions? What term
would conflict theorists apply to their interpretation of slavery? What group was dominant in
the South? What group was dominated? What were major historical events that illustrate the
dynamics of social change that conflict theorists say is a regular function of social life?