Anton Foek helps us recognize human variety and confronts the challenges of living in a diverse world by focusing on the conflict and interactionalist perspective. The conflict perspective “focuses on competition and conflict between social groups and the change that results.” The interactionalist perspective, a micro approach, “views society as the product of countless encounters between human beings in everyday social activity.” The conflict perspective att

Sunanta says, that although her job has made her sick, she is afraid she “may end up losing her integrity, her self esteem and even her identity” (p.219). Bangkok standards consider her to be lucky to have such a good job, although it only pays six or seven dollars per twelve hours. Again we ask ourselves why? “It is a catch-22 situation: if they don’t work, their relatives get nothing, if they do work, they get sick from all the chemicals and dust” (p.217). Their obligations as family members are to help poorer relatives. One woman states, “We have to think of our parents in Chaing Mai and our small brothers and sisters… who is going to pay for them if we don’t? (p.217). So then who benefits? Going up the social classes we ask who’s in control?

Imagine yourself at the age of twelve and running the risk of being sold into sex slavery or as cheap labor in Thailand. Many parents sadly have no other alternative but to sell their daughters. Foek, in search for answers, speaks with Sunanta, a young lady in her twenty’s, as she explains why people do the things they do? She goes on to say that parents “generate income from selling their daughters ¾ a one-time flat fee of a couple hundred dollars.” If they are not sold, at an early age, they are sent to big cities to generate a stable income at these factories. Then “they send the money back home to their parents and often pay for their little brothers and sisters to go to school” (p.217). These females then suffer from many illnesses. Such illnesses include: “…respiratory infections, lungs filled with dust from fabrics in the factory. And not only dust: others work with lead and other chemicals and suffer from chronic lead poisoning. Besides asthma, hair and memory loss, and constant pain in their hands, necks, and shoulders, they have episodes of vomiting and the women have irregular periods” (p

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