Theoretical Perspectives In Sociology

The Major theoretical perspectives in Sociology show how individuals interact with society and its effect on their individual and group perspectives. Sociologists use these perspectives as an infrastructure to comprehend the behavior and characteristics of human behavior in society. Furthermore, the conflict of variances and the struggle to fit in often leads to symbolic interactive deviant behavior. In fact, Basirico, Cashion, & Eshleman’s (2014), define symbolic interaction theory as the social theory stressing interactions between people and the social processes that occur within the individual that are made possible by language and internalized meaning” (p. 44).
When people in society feel threatened, rejected or alienated, they interact

Moreover, with the perception of being victimized and deprived of necessities, made the influential behavior from other disgruntled gang members in agreement with their views, too receptive. The article shows how statistics prove that gang violence evolves around similar geographical areas and that these crimes are becoming more violent. Linda Staaf, head of National Police intelligence expresses the concept of control from this area by saying, “In the past, they would shoot people in the leg to intimidate, whereas now, they aim for the head – to kill” (Hale, 2017, par 6.) Hale (2017) that social structure and culture are responsible for racial discrimination, formal and

In fact, according to Basirico, Cashion, & Eshleman’s (2014), argued “that all history was marked by economic determinism—the idea that all change, social conditions, and even society itself are based on economic factors—and that economic inequality results in class struggles” (p. 28-29). The article also highlights how socially conflicted gangs ae fighting amongst themselves to prove authority and rank., to revamp, the way the gangs operated to cover more territory. Moreover, the article demonstrated that symbolic interactionalism was changing, whereas their present values of loyalty was no longer valid. Their social status was flawed because of their grievances against society, which resulted in a bloodbath. Furthermore, the continued violence in the Stockholm, demonstrated that the demographics for this area was symbolic in nature to increased violence. Nonetheless, the fact that there were few interpretations of why this uprising was continuous, reiterates the need to analyze the relationship between the gang member and society, focusing on the gang’s social identity