Radical School of thought employs which of the following theory?

The correct answer is Option (1) → Marxian theory

Option (1) Marxian theory — Correct. The radical school employed Marxian theory to explain the basic cause of poverty, deprivation and social inequality, and related the social problems of its time to the development of capitalism.

Option (2) Welfare theory — Incorrect. Welfare belongs to another school of the 1970s, the welfare or humanistic school, concerned with housing, health and education.

Option (3) Behaviouralism — Incorrect. This is the third school of the 1970s. It stressed lived experience and how social groups based on ethnicity, race and religion perceive space, not the economic causes of inequality.

Option (4) Possibilism — Incorrect. Possibilism is a view of the human-nature relationship (people creating possibilities with nature’s resources), not a theory of inequality.

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