ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the theoretical perspectives that are divided into macro and micro approaches since the relationship between macro and micro social problems is very important. Anarchism, like the other sociological perspectives, has an important role to play in understanding viable solutions to social problems. The social science of women's liberation and feminist theory can be traced to the work of, who lived and wrote in London during the late 1700s. Conflict theorists, like structural functionalists, view social reality in terms of social structures: parts making up a social whole. With the development of nation-states much of human social life, similar to non-human social life, has been removed from the control of the people experiencing it in their local communities. The chapter talks about the critical theory that focuses on that aspect of Karl Marx's work that portrays social reality as having multiple layers.
