In many national or even local events theoretical perspectives can be seen. The perspectives are structured functionalism, social conflict, and symbolic interactionalism. Each of these theoretical perspectives are the things that shape how societies and the world function. While watching the “State of the Union Address” given by President Donald Trump, the perspective become prevalent and can be easily observed. The first of the three theoretical perspectives are structured functionalism. It was coined by Auguste Comte, who was the founding father, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Duckhelm. The use for this perspective is to look for how things are interdependent and interconnected. An assumption is that societies are made up of these two things, things being …show more content…
The application is that it looks at how people interact with others and how people develop meanings in private relationships. The people that developed this idea are George Herberd Merd, and Herbert Blumer. An assumption for this is that human beings have the capacity to alter the meaning they give their life experiences when they find themselves in different situations. In the address President Trump spoke a lot about the tragedies that many have faced. One being the man named Ji Seong-ho, changed the meaning of his life when he made it to The States. Another example of this is when two teenaged girls who were best friends were murdered in Detroit by gang members, the parents of these girls had to alter the meaning of their lives due to this horrendous life experience. This assumption leads to the assumptions that human beings have the capacity for thought and that the capacity for thought are developed by interacting with others. Unlike structured functionalism and social conflict, one of symbolic interactionalism’s limitations is that it focuses too much on the micro picture and not the macro. It also does not pay attention to power