Theoretical sociological perspectives
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For each of the three major theoretical sociological perspectives, write two to four statements representing how proponents of each perspective may analyze outsourcing of customer service jobs to foreign countries. Avoid obvious stereotypes and overly broad generalizations.
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First of all, you might correlate the topic with functionalist theories. Since functionalist theory involves the application of the scientific method to the objective social world and the use of an analogy between the individual organism and society (http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/soc/s00/soc111-01/IntroTheories/Functionalism.html), you can certainly apply it to outsourcing.
Because functionalist viewpoints of poverty are definitely aligned with outsourcing, they may see the poor workers who take outsourcing job as products of their own environments. "This is most likely due to the fact concomitants of poverty include mainly a disproportionate amount of urban dwellers and minority groups" (http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/thaprojex/6.html.
However, you might get deeper theoretically ...
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