The culture of poverty theory fails to examine the aspects of racism and prejudice while condemning an individual of an ethnic marginalized community for perpetuating poverty.
Psychotherapeutic literature attempts to explain the actions of an individual by diagnosing him/her with a physical malfunction rather than addressing the circumstances that the individual was raised and socialized into.
*None of these theories, biological essentialism, the culture of poverty theory, or psychotherapeutic literature, should be applied when studying violence and relationships because they each attempt to determine a physical malfunction of an individual despite the other components of the individual’s life that contributed to their …show more content…
As discussed in Ross and Rapp’s article, a community is the space where an individual is able to recognize what is socially accepted behavior. “Communities represent localized, face-to-face sociability; they are the material arenas in which groups of people larger than individual families live out their lives” (Ross and Rapp, 9).
3. Social construction theory is described by Vance in her article as a framework that encourages ambiguity when analyzing identity and sexuality. Social construction theory also enables inquiry of the future of sexuality by empowering others to question its origin rather than constraining them to biological reasoning and inherent explanations.
2. Impoverished living among marginalized ethnic groups is the result of multiple elements including racism, colonization, and forced assimilation. No individual alone is responsible for perpetuating a cycle of poverty within their community. The culture of poverty theory generalizes poverty as a cultural