Question

Which sociological perspective is most aligned with a theorist who sees the law as an instrument of repression and a tool designed to maintain the powerful in their privileged positions? social exchange conflict perspective structural functionalism symbolic interactionism?

Answer 1

This is the conflict perspective. Within this framework, everything in a society is done as a way of either perpetuating or lessening conflicts between the groups in power and the groups who are either agitating to receive power or are out of power.