MacKenzie is studying how welfare policies affect working families. She has paid several visits to families who have agreed to participate in her study and has interviewed them. She has also asked them to fill out a questionnaire about the issues in their daily lives, such as household budget and martial harmony. With this info, she is trying to link the effects of welfare policies to these family issues. The study conducted by MacKenzie is part of .

Macrosociology

Explanation:

Macrosociology

This is mostly defined on a large scale perspective. It is simply viewing big outcome that is said to affect big portion of population. Such as Social structures and institutions, whole civilizations/populations. It is the looking for patterns and effects the incidence has on lives on small groups. It also deals with matters like poverty, war, health care, world economy.

It is also defined as a means or approach to sociology which capitalizes or is based on the analysis of social systems and populations on a large scale, also at the level of social structure, and at high level of theoretical abstraction.

Conflict theory.

A Marxist-based social theory stated that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have different amounts of material and non-material resources (such as the wealthy and the poor). He stated that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with little power.