Social Prejudice And Symbolic Interactionism

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Social Prejudices and Symbolic Interactionism
Wm Hayden Locke
Darton State College In sociology there are three different sociological perspectives used to study and explain sociological phenomena. These are structural functionalism (which focuses on how each part of society functions and works towards contributing to the while), conflict theory (which looks at the way social inequalities contribute to society as a whole), and symbolic interactionism (which deals with one-to-one interactions and communications between people within social groups). In this essay, we’ll be looking at prejudice through the lenses of symbolic interactionism. Before we begin, let’s look more in-depth at exactly symbolic interactionist theory is. Unlike