Homelessness sociological functionalist perspective
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Homelessness sociological functionalist perspective
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IntroductionHomeless is reasoned by several social factors under which a person depart from thehome and they are considered as unable to acquire and maintain the adequate housing. Theseproblems covers drugs to terror and homelessness also which affect overall life of person to agreat extent. The current research is based on social problem as homeless with the clearexplanation related to its reason and consequence on the society. The scenario has been clarifiedwith the use of appropriate sociological theory. In this context, sociological functionalistperspective has been considered.Social problem in AustraliaThere are several social problem prevailing in Australia as currently 38% hike in theeconomic and financial issues in the society. However, the ratio of another issues such as safety,security and terrorism has been increased 30%. Some of the specific issues are not being changedand remain constant. IN this regard, drug and drug abuse has been increased to 4%.. The Tasmania state of the country is facing major issue related to refugee, unemployment andpoverty as well as health issues. Along with that, religion issues are also faced along withproportion of rich and poor people (Ravenhill, 2016).The basic reason behind such kind of issueis higher cost of living in the state and people are unable to access the health care facilities. Suchkind of scenario influence people to live their home and get addicted from some kind of badhabits such as smoking and drugs etc. They consume theses things for the purpose of beingrelaxed and tension even without any kind of society or safety related to housing.Such kind of social issues take place due to poor facilities in context of easy access tohealth care facilities and employment etc. Not only this but 70% young people who are owningtheir home are the victim of domestic violence and family breakdown. It create mental stressamong them and affect their overall life style to a great extent. However, Greens committedtowards the homelessness services for at least next 10 years. In this regard, varied kind ofhousing services are provided through federal funding. This proves to be effective in cateringtheir requirement in an effectual manner. This also contribute towards improving the life style ofpeople and ensuring their certainty to a great extent (Darab and Hartman, 2013).Description of theory
The theory of functionalism reflects the better organization of society for bringingpositive attitude among people and increasing their attention towards the most positive approachof the life. In this respect functionalism theory shed light on cultural and social phenomenon withregard to functions performed by them. This perspective also explained that society is havingmany issues and problem because of forever changes. People are unable to adapt the change andaccordingly crime related activities increases in the society. Furthermore, it is assumed inaccordance with the functionalism perspective that in case all interdependent part of society goeswell then it would definitely bring stability and higher productivity (Wilson and Spoehr, 2015).On the contrary, in case each part of society do not work well then it forms several kind of issuesfor the better performance of the society. It can be understood with the help example of financialproblem. The recession in the market leads to increase unemployment and force people to adaptthe change with the establishment of new order and productivity. For instance, during the phaseof recession families develop the propensity to save the money and work in accordance with newstandard so as to save the money by thinking of the future perspective (Welty and et. al., 2013).The perspective of functionalism reflects that society get the benefit out of the poverty asit does not only focus on particular individual under the poverty but shed light on macro levelbenefits. This is because all individual get the benefit and work in accordance with the setstandards. This is the reason many people tend to be in the poverty only for the purpose ofhaving long term security for their life time. Therefore, functionalism is most suitable forresolving the potential issues related to society and providing the right direction to address thespecific social problem of the society. It would be effective to integrate all related resources andshowing the upward direction to society by ensuring the development and growth of theindividual.Application of theoryThe functionalism perspective of homelessness reflects that people like to be in povertyonly and they do not put efforts for their own security. However, majority of the organization ofsociety such as economy, families and schooling as well as government work together for thepurpose of running the society effectively. However, the homelessness is considered theindividual issue not in the organizing system (Whittaker and Holland-Smith, 2016). In additionto this, theory shed light on four subsystems such as goal attainment, integration and adaptation
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