This article allowed me to see the struggles of welfare from not just the conflict theorist's perspective of 'the Man' oppressing those who try to sustain life from the social institution, but also see some historical interaction between preconceived cultural norms, standards, and ideas and the laws that create the disparity and cultural roles and perceptions that hinder society today. It showed me that some of the problems that we as a society currently face with welfare were not simply made with malevolent intent by malicious people, but created from the interactions between people who think they are doing what is right, and people who believe what they are doing will help others, and of course, people who are trying to do what is best for
