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Functionalist Perspective On Poverty

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To begin I feel as if the cause of poverty throughout every nation in the world is the ability of the citizens to have class mobility. If we want a solution to the issue of poverty we have to give people the option to get them out of poverty. This deals a lot with strengthening the middle class. Also, a big issue with the increased rates of poverty is that 20% of the population has 50% of the wealth. How can we expect people to not be in poverty when we aren’t sharing the wealth? During chapter 2 and chapter 1 the perspective in which I have the most issues with is the functionalist perspective. Particular in its ideas of what the solutions to poverty are I found myself questioning a lot of their ideas. First of all, they admit themselves that

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