Conflict theories

Conflict theory - perspectives in sociology and social psychology that emphasize a materialist interpretation of history, dialectical method of analysis, a critical stance toward existing social arrangements, and political program of revolution or, at least, reform. Article “Conflict theories” in English Wikipedia has 36.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.9 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Conflict theories” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Conflict theories”, its content was written by 231 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 579 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1143 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3124 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5354 in September 2003
• Global: #13522 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16567 in October 2008
• Global: #22132 in October 2011

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 冲突理论		45.9651
2	Indonesian (id) Teori konflik		43.6385
3	English (en) Conflict theories		36.101
4	German (de) Konfliktsoziologie		33.5612
5	Persian (fa) نظریه‌های تضاد		31.6627
6	Swedish (sv) Konfliktteori		27.7557
7	Malay (ms) Teori konflik		25.691
8	Norwegian (no) Konfliktteori		18.4862
9	Spanish (es) Teoría del conflicto		17.6774
10	Japanese (ja) 紛争理論		16.823

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Conflict theories" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Conflict theories		4 884 338
2	Spanish (es) Teoría del conflicto		1 482 041
3	Indonesian (id) Teori konflik		1 038 763
4	Chinese (zh) 冲突理论		301 135
5	Polish (pl) Teoria konfliktu		217 731
6	German (de) Konfliktsoziologie		168 482
7	French (fr) Théorie du conflit		122 591
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية الصراع		120 817
9	Hebrew (he) גישת הקונפליקט החברתי		111 851
10	Japanese (ja) 紛争理論		79 730

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Conflict theories" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Conflict theories		6 054
2	Spanish (es) Teoría del conflicto		1 039
3	Chinese (zh) 冲突理论		957
4	Korean (ko) 갈등 이론		528
5	Indonesian (id) Teori konflik		260
6	French (fr) Théorie du conflit		249
7	Polish (pl) Teoria konfliktu		190
8	Persian (fa) نظریه‌های تضاد		172
9	German (de) Konfliktsoziologie		157
10	Japanese (ja) 紛争理論		154

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Conflict theories" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Conflict theories		231
2	German (de) Konfliktsoziologie		57
3	Spanish (es) Teoría del conflicto		40
4	French (fr) Théorie du conflit		38
5	Japanese (ja) 紛争理論		25
6	Chinese (zh) 冲突理论		24
7	Arabic (ar) نظرية الصراع		20
8	Hebrew (he) גישת הקונפליקט החברתי		20
9	Indonesian (id) Teori konflik		18
10	Polish (pl) Teoria konfliktu		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Conflict theories" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Conflict theories		1
2	Persian (fa) نظریه‌های تضاد		1
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية الصراع		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Теория на конфликта		0
5	Czech (cs) Konfliktualismus		0
6	German (de) Konfliktsoziologie		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Konfliktoteorioj		0
8	Spanish (es) Teoría del conflicto		0
9	Estonian (et) Konfliktiteooria		0
10	Finnish (fi) Konfliktiteoria		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Conflict theories" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Conflict theories		1 143
2	Turkish (tr) Çatışma teorileri		359
3	Persian (fa) نظریه‌های تضاد		297
4	Arabic (ar) نظرية الصراع		295
5	Chinese (zh) 冲突理论		235
6	Japanese (ja) 紛争理論		196
7	Serbian (sr) Теорије конфликта		106
8	Korean (ko) 갈등 이론		105
9	Indonesian (id) Teori konflik		72
10	Swedish (sv) Konfliktteori		57

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية الصراع
bg	Bulgarian Теория на конфликта
cs	Czech Konfliktualismus
de	German Konfliktsoziologie
en	English Conflict theories
eo	Esperanto Konfliktoteorioj
es	Spanish Teoría del conflicto
et	Estonian Konfliktiteooria
fa	Persian نظریه‌های تضاد
fi	Finnish Konfliktiteoria
fr	French Théorie du conflit
he	Hebrew גישת הקונפליקט החברתי
id	Indonesian Teori konflik
ja	Japanese 紛争理論
ko	Korean 갈등 이론
lt	Lithuanian Konflikto teorija
ms	Malay Teori konflik
nl	Dutch Conflictsociologie
no	Norwegian Konfliktteori
pl	Polish Teoria konfliktu
pt	Portuguese Teorias do conflito
sr	Serbian Теорије конфликта
sv	Swedish Konfliktteori
tr	Turkish Çatışma teorileri
zh	Chinese 冲突理论

Best Rank

English: #16567 10.2008

Global: #22132 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #5354 09.2003

Global: #13522 09.2003

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