Topic > Essay on Structural Approach to Poverty - 857

Poverty provides jobs for social scientists, social workers, journalists, and poverty warriors” (Herbert Gans, 1972). Herbert Gans theory, poverty creates jobs to deal with the consequences of poverty. Stratification leads people to seek the best jobs with high financial rewards at all income levels. Poor people are looked down upon as a "burden of society" doing low-wage jobs and hard manual labor. “Who is willing to do dirty, dangerous and difficult work that others refuse to do” (Gans 1972). society is not expected, but it is absolutely necessary. However, today's sociologists argue that the economic inequality between important underpaid workers (elderly residential nurses, teachers) compared to the individual title in non-essential roles (sports, entertainment) is positive contributions in a functional sense but does not have economic reward that deserves like the people at higher levels of stratification.