Two classic sociological approaches to poverty and social stratification are structural-functionalism and competition theory
Sociologists tend to concentrate on external (to the individual) explanations of poverty, such as those based on place, class, gender, economic power, and related contextual variables.
Sociologists see it as a social situation of societies with an unequal and inequitable distribution of income and wealth, of the de-industrialization of Western cultures, and the exploitative effects of global capitalism. Poverty is not an equivalent opportunity social situation.
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