Group conflict targets both resource gain and harm to rivals through varied tactics.

Evidence

Social or group conflict involves—in a paraphrase and modification of Coser (1956)—a struggle over values or claims to status, power, and other scarce resources in which the aims of the conflict groups are not only to gain the desired values, but also to affect, change, or injure rivals. … Recent racial conflict in the United States has involved litigation and the pursuit of legal redress, conventional political action (voting and lobbying), and unconventional political action, such as nonviolent protest and mass demonstrations, as well as urban rioting (Himes, 1966, p. 3). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3342

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines social/group conflict as a struggle over values, status, power and scarce resources that aims both to gain values and to injure rivals.