How are the 3 Theoretical Perspectives Guiding this Social Program

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Written Assignment 3 -- How are the 3 Theoretical Perspectives Guiding this Social Program?

No cover sheet or name needed, 3 pages, 1 inch margins all around, 12 point font, double spaced, pages numbered. Include a Works Cited page. This can count toward your 3-page minimum.

Here are the details of a specific social policy:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces

Watch the 6 minute video found by scrolling about halfway down the website.

OR use this social policy instead:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/08/va-t...

Write an essay identifying from which one of the three major perspectives (functionalism, conflict, or symbolic interaction) this program seems to draw most of its basis and major assumptions. In other words, which perspective seems to be primarily guiding this program? Ch. 6 in the Ritzer book may be helpful to review.

Write two more paragraphs in which you explore how the social problems behind this program would be addressed and interpreted by each of the other two major theoretical perspectives. For instance, if you determine that the program is primarily guided by ideas from the functionalist perspective, then you would address how the conflict and symbolic interaction perspectives would address these problems.

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Three Major Perspectives in Sociology
Social phenomena are analyzed from different perspectives and at different levels by
sociologists. Socialists study social behavior and the society from generalization to concrete
interpretations. There are three main theoretical perspectives that sociologist employ today. The
three theoretical perspectives are the conflict perspective, the functionalist perspective, and the
symbolic interactionist perspective (Burrell et al. 84). These three theoretical perspectives
provide sociologists with theoretical paradigms which enable them to explain how people
influence society and vice versa.
In order to reduce the number of suicides committed by veterans, the U.S Department of
Veterans Affairs plans to start offering mental healthcare services to veterans who need it but
have less-than-honorable discharges. Previously, the Department of Veterans Affair has been
offering the healthcare services only to the veterans who have a general or an honorable
discharge leaving out many veterans with an urgent need for the services but have less-thanhonorable discharges. From the three primary theoretical perspectives, it can be concluded that
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