The Nest Theory

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During my senior year of high school, a group of students in my high school started a Christian Worship club. My little brother who is an atheist wanted to start his own club where those who don’t believe in God would have a safe place to share their views. Because of the Equal Access Law, the school itself could not stop him from starting the club but the statement he was making with starting the club upset not only those in the school but also parents and community members, who believed in the Christian faith. This became a household issue as my mother, disagreed with my brother’s decision to start the club and wanted to forbid him from doing it. My younger brother argued that kids, especially those who have differencing views from their …show more content…
This theory to explain how to look at the systems and relationships that create environment for conflict to arise. The model for this theory is set up in a model where the system encompasses the sub- system, which encompasses the relationship, which encompasses the specific issues. (Dugan 14) The first tier, specific issue, is of course the conflict and its most basic properties: what are the parties disputing and what are the chooses you have to solve it? The next tier is relationship conflict, which means that an issue between two parties might be caused because of previous incidents in the relationship. (Dugan 15) Sub- system and system are similar but distinguished to better locate the source of the issue. A sub-system is an environment where problematic systems are demonstrated, for example “bringing inequalities such as racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia to the offices and factories in which we work, the houses we worship in which we pray, the courts and beaches on which we play, the streets on which we meet our neighbors, even the houses we live." (Dugan 16) So, that makes the system section things like racism, sexism, classism, and
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