Social Problem-Poverty
QUESTION
Answer the following prompts in an essay format:
First, select a social problem to analyze throughout this course. You may select from the list or come up with a social problem you wish to analyze:
• Poverty
Remember, you will use your selected social problem to complete other assignments throughout this course.
In an essay (500-750 words), cite one scholarly source from the GCU library in addition to the textbook and complete the following:
1. Describe your selected social problem in its social context.
2. Use your sociological imagination to explain how the selected social problem is influenced by society.
3. Select the theoretical perspective(s) (functionalist, conflict, and interactionist) that best aligns with the social problem you’ve selected to analyze in this course.
4. Explain why the theoretical perspective(s) you chose is best to explain the selected social problem.
5. Next, use that theoretical perspective(s) to explain how your selected social problem came to be and how it is perpetuated.
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The social context of poverty
Social issues are a part of the society and one of the key social problem is poverty. Poverty is also defined as the destitution and is mostly classified as low pay and minimal admittance to various assets. Poverty has a great impact on a great population and there exists vast factors that contribute to poverty such as health, social class and children. The conflict perspective and sociological imagination aid in expounding the social issues of poverty and how its perception among people in the society. The social setting of poverty is addressed into two key matters which are relative destitution and supreme neediness.
Supreme poverty is defined as when an individual lacks base pay that is required to meet the least prerequisites for at least one main living necessity for all-inclusive measure of time. This includes not been able to satisfy needs like housing, food and cover, relative destitution or poverty is a state where a family pay is a specific rate below the middle pay. People in a particular population may be linked to neediness in the occurrence they lack assets to cater for various needs such as diet/food. Relative poverty is also defined when people are not able to participate in different occasions and offer the expectations for daily comforts and offices that are recognized in the social orders they reside in.
How poverty is impacted by the society through sociological imagination
Sociological imagination and creative mind is categorized as one’s ability to understand the relationship of what is going on in people’s lives and the social powers that surrounds them. There are different factors that leads to neediness and this include ranks, separation, impendence, political strategy and class-based social delineation. Neediness on the minimal level is as a result of multidimensional aspects (Silva, 2021). This entails lack of tutoring, absence of occupations, inadequate of medical care, lack of monetary aid. Through establishment, using sociological creative mind and being well versed of the reasonable criteria and logical perspective, this allows and individual to understand that may people in the US are affected by poverty/destitution and thus it is a calamity that need to be curbed before it affects the lives of more people.
Theoretical perspective.
The functionalist hypothesis is the best perspective of explaining what poverty/neediness is as it states that the systems and frameworks of the society stays as they accomplish viral jobs for the continuation and supportability of the society. In this assessment, functionalist social scientists concur that separation endures as it continually undertakes crucial social jobs. Functionalism expects separation to be vital in inciting people with unique abilities, insights and information to enter the key occupations. Also, separation is inescapable and vital (Silva, 2021).
The suspicions made when using this hypothesis in the American culture are that few abilities and occupations have a better privilege as compared to others and that different people have the details needed to attain such positons. More so, the society reimburses such people with higher and better pay. Also the functionalist point of view identifies that if individuals are poor, it is on the basis that they try to have the opportunity to acquire expertise with the skills needed for the fundamental, intensely repaid occupations. This means that if separation is inevitable, so is poverty/neediness.
References
Silva, H. A. (2021). A Critique of Poverty: Exploring the Underground of Social Philosophy. Praktyka Teoretyczna, 42(4), 139-165.