Social and Political Conflicts in the “Elysium” Movie

This thesis is a research about Social and Political Conflicts in the “Elysium” movie by Neill Blomkamp by using Lewis Coser, Ulan, Leopold Von Wiese and Howard Becker and Ralf Dahrendrof theories, the marxism approach is used also in analysis thesis data. The purpose of this research are to find out (1) the kinds of social and politican conflicts in the Elysium movie, (2) the causes of social and political conflicts in the movie. The writer conducted the research by using descriptive method. The source of data in this research is Neill Blomkamp‟s movie, which was published in 2013. The data analysis technique in this research uses the library technique(read some books and thesis) and note technique(wrote more information from books and thesis). The data analysis technique in this research is using sociological approach. The findings of this research, the writer found that there are three kinds of social conflicts according to Lewis Coser, such as: conflict of involving social position, conflict of interest, conflict of role, and there are two causes of political conflicts according to Ulan, such as conflicts of interest and conflicts of values. Based on the findings, the writer concluded that the causes of social conflicts in this movie according to Leopold Von Wiese and Howard Beeker, there are four, such as: differences between people, differences in culture, the form of interest, social change. The causes of political conflicts there are two, according to Ralf Dahrendrof, such as: the plurality of horizontal and the plurality of vertical