SOC 201 Chapter 13: Chapter 13.10
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It has to be the people in the area who want an education. If your parents just don"t care, it won"t do any good to spend a lot of money. Someone else can"t want a good life for you. You have got to want it for yourself. then, she adds, however, i agree that everyone should have a chance at taking the same course. According to proponents of the structural perspective, the cultural theories of poverty themselves may be contributing to the problem. By stressing the inadequacies of poor people, they seem to encourage a cover-up of the inadequacies of the structure in which those poor people live. Sociologist william ryan called the kind of reasoning implicit in the cultural perspective a form of blaming the victim .
