As of today, the fast food industry has become an essential element to many individual lives. And with that being known, the interactions between those who rely and contribute to the fast food industry are critically observed. When observing the interactions made between the customers and the workers within a fast food environment from a sociologist 's perspective, it is quite evident that the fast food industry helps maintain the stability of society and create the distance between the rich and the poor.
According to the structural-functional pioneer Herbert Spencer, who believed that "society functions like the human body, and the social structures operate together to preserve society". It can be concluded that the fast food industry plays a major role in the stability of society. When analyzing the fast food environment from a structural functionalist perspective, it is recognizable that the fast food restaurant serves as significance to society primarily because it provides jobs for many individuals as well as a sense of self-fulfillment to others. If it wasn 't for fast food restaurants, many individuals would be unemployed, the poverty rate would increase, and economic growth wouldn 't be as high as it is today. Take the human body, for example; when an organ or muscle vessel in the human body isn 't functioning properly, it causes the body as a whole to malfunction. So when fast food restaurants are taken out of society, the stability of society as a whole