Describe the basic insights about income inequality and poverty offered by the structural-functional, social-conflict, feminist, and symbolic-interaction theories of poverty. What is one weakness of each theory?
What will be an ideal response?
- Structural-functional: some poverty is inevitable; social pathology, social disorganization theories
- Social-conflict: poverty can be eliminated; Karl Marx, multicultural theory
- Feminist: feminist theory, intersection theory
- Symbolic-interaction: defining the problem; blaming the victim
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