Question

Do you think that minimum wage and Welfare work well in our society?

choose whether you think a functionalist perspective or a conflict perspective better explains the existence of minimum wage and welfare, use it to analyze both concepts and provide evidence to support your answer.

Answer 1

In my opinion, minimum wage helps lots of employees because minimum wage is determined taking the minimum expenses that would occur to live a decent life in a country. It's also to regulate the private companies who otherwise would exploit people from economically backward classes.
Functionalism is a concept that views society as a system of various interconnected parts that function in harmony to ensure the smooth running of the society. Conflict theory on the other hand views societya system with limited resources for which there is always a struggle between the members, especially classes of the society. It also states that most of the time society functions by per and domination rather than consensus and conformity
In my point of view, functionalist theory explains the minimum wage issue because different types people live in a society but in order for all of them to live in harmony, there is a system called government that regulates things between different groups. Thus maintaining a minimum wage in order to provide a decent living to the poor class becomes essential who otherwise would disturb the smooth functioning of the society by moving themselves away from the mainstream society through deviant behaviours.