Abstract. This article analyzes the main theses of L. Coser’s monograph devoted to the study of the positive functions of social conflict. L. Coser’s work is based on G. Simmel’s main ideas about conflicts and at the same time he complements and specifies them, compares them with other authors’ theoretical positions and brings certain scientific-methodological clarity in the theory of conflicts. The paper analyzes L. Coser’s theses in detail, reflects the main corrections and additions brought by him in G. Simmel’s and other authors’ basic ideas about social conflicts.
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Key words and phrases: социальный конфликт, групповые структуры и границы, позитивные и интегративные функции, внутренние и внешние конфликты, конфликтное поведение, социальная сплоченность и солидарность, ассоциации и коалиции, social conflict, group structures and boundaries, positive and integrative functions, internal and external conflicts, conflict behaviour, social cohesion and solidarity, associations and coalitions
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