culturally diverse, people identify with their own specific “in-groups”. Unfortunately, this idea of a set of people that we identify with creates a rift in how we interact with others. One way society demonstrates in-group bias is based upon social class. “Greater income inequality widens the social distance between different income classes and thereby reduces the overall level of trust” (Lei and Vesely 2010:1). This basic level of trust and biased views affects the tendencies of self-control, crime…

A. Three of the most widely used theoretical approaches used by sociologists are the functionalist, conflict, and interactionists perspectives. Functionalists highlight the contributions made by society that lead to social stability. Talcott Parsons, a key figure in the development of functionalist theory, viewed society as of a vast network of connected parts, each of which helps to maintain the system as a whole (Schaefer 2015). Conflict theorists take the approach that social behavior is understood…

along with the sociological approach called the symbolic interactionist perspective. This approach is used to describe how our society can be viewed and its variants applied to daily interactions. Sociologists use a variation of theoretical perceptions to make sense of the world. These perspectives or ideas provide a structure for understanding explanations on matters, we find odd. The approach we will focus on is the symbolic interactionist perspective of sociology which looks at society as a product…

Social Interactionist Perspective &; Crime As crime continues to occur, criminologists begin to define new theories to explain our seemingly naturalistic tendencies on what mental processes take place for an individual to actually partake in criminal activity. The symbolic interactionist perspective defines itself by its strong beliefs in the fact that criminals are defined by their social processes. The social process theory states that criminality is a function of people’s interactions with…

Functionalist, Marxist and Symbolic interactionist perspectives as general theories or models of how modern day society works. I will be drawing on today’s society and how these theories have an impact on it. I will be giving examples on how these perspectives are still valid today and will then decide if I think one theory is more significant than the other and why. I will also be explaining what theory I agree more with and why the others are not as important. Marxist perspectives is a valid way of helping…

ultimately involves interactions with others. This paper will evolve from a brief discussion about the symbolic interactionist perspective to a brief review of the interaction chain ritual theory. There have been many aspects of the human being that have been examined and many theories proposed to explain how we develop and why one person can be satisfied with a certain task and the other not. Symbolic interaction is one theory that strives to provide an explanation to our development. Simply put, this…

The basic supposition of the Symbolic Interactionist (S.I.) paradigm is that human interaction is based upon and the interplay of three elements, self, society and social interaction. These elements form a triangle of interwoven social connections. The basic association is as follows: society shapes self, self then shapes social interaction and interaction shapes society. The interaction is complex enough to also allow for nearly every possible combination between those three elements in that the…

contribute in ways to help that can be beneficial for everyone. However, to a socialist, patriotism can be viewed within three main perspectives: the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspective. A functionalist views society like one main living organism in which each part contributes to the survival of the whole. In other words, a functionalist perspective emphasizes how the parts of society are structured to maintain its stability. In this sociological approach, if an aspect of…

The three primary theoretical perspectives in sociology are Functionalist Perspective, Conflict Perspective, and Symbolic Interactionist Perspective. Functionalist perspective was introduced around the 1940s, by three men: Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Merton. According to their perspective, society has intertwined parts that work together to create social balance. In other words, sociologists focus on the connecting various parts of society and analyze how a group/person…

to be appropriate behavior; when they are treated with respect they act like normal people, but when they are treated as ill, they react as if they are ill. The interactionist perspective can be used to understand other types of abnormal or deviant behavior as well. “Also looking at deviance from the interactionist perspective, David Matza (1964) noted that this movement into deviant subcultures occurs through a process of “drift,” as people gradually leave their old crowd and become enmeshed…