Habermas contends that contemporary society is held together in two ways: social integration and system integration. However, these distinct ways of reproducing social life tend to clash with each other, resulting in a variety of fierce social and political struggles. A major theoretical advantage of Habermas's dualistic social theory is that it allows him to reconsider the origins of conflict in advanced capitalist societies and to try to account for the new social movements that have surfaced in the wake of subsystem dynamics.