Symbolic Interactionism: The Battle Of Racism

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Often society finds itself in a battle of racism being learned or inherited but as a result racism is actually learned because children aren’t born with racial prejudice rather pick it up as they grow. Racism is learned through the environment that we live in and who is deemed as socially acceptable. Symbolic Interactionism focuses on the micro-level of analysis and “views society as a product of shared meaning, a dynamic and continuous face-to-face interactions of individuals.” (Brym, 2018). Through our interactions with people we interpret things based on normal social expectations. Conflict can arise with Symbolic interaction when people change the way they perceive others after their interactions with each other, for example children might