Question

Stealing avocados, or almost any other agricultural product, is a felony in California if the product is worth more than $100. Supporters of the law believe it is the only way to protect farmers from vagrants and transients who can ruin the viability of small farms. However, if you believe that such laws target homeless people who have little power in society and are simply trying to eat, then you are probably:

A) a conflict theorist.B) a functionalist.C) a symbolic interactionist.D) a follower of Robert Merton.E) a deviant.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) a conflict theorist.

Step-by-step explanation:

A Conflict theorist sees social life as a competition, and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality, For example, conflict theorists view the relationship between a housing complex owner and a tenant as being based mainly on conflict instead of balance or harmony, even though there may be more harmony than conflict. They believe that they are defined by getting whatever resources they can from each other.