Social Problems At Martha's Outfitters Site

In addition to poverty, there were many social conflicts and theories that relates to the social problems at the Martha’s Outfitters site. The first issue relates to Marx's Social Conflict Theory, which is the concept of inequality that causes conflict and social change based on race, sex, class, and age. The Social Conflict Theory is competition between dominant groups having power versus minority groups with les power or control. This theory represents inequality amongst individuals who lack the necessary resources needed to survive in life, better known as the poor, and individuals who have addition material resources such as a car, designer clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, and having much more money are considered to be the wealthy. In regards to the participants at Martha’s Outfitters who were homeless living on the streets, or living at a homeless shelter shows the relations of being classified as minority group members who have significantly less control or power over their lives than members of a dominant groups. …show more content…
Social class is a large group of people who are categorized into four main categories, upper class, middle class, working glass, and lower class. Social class is also broken up into different dimensions such as income, wealth, power, occupation, education, race, and ethnicity. For instance, many of the participants at Martha’s Outfitters were most likely to be unemployed or low income persons not having much wealth. There were mostly African American, Hispanic, and Mexican ethnicity groups who all received some sort of government assistance for income assistance, food, and housing assistance. These individuals all fall into the lower class classification as well as minority group classification. Lower class people are people of the working poor and under class people such as the participants at Martha’s