Sociologists study social phenomena at different levels and from different perspectives. From physical interpretation to broad generalizations of society and social behavior, sociologists study all from particular events to big and main events. Their analyze and thinking form the basis for today's paradigms, which provide sociologists with an orienting frame for figuring certain kinds of questions about society and the people that lives in that society. Paradigms are the theoretical frame work through which the scientist studies the world. Today’s sociologist adapts three theoretical perspectives: the symbolic interactions perspective, the functionalist perspective, and the conflict perspective. These perspectives offer sociologists theoretical
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It considers the symbols use in daily life, what these symbols mean, and how people interact with each other through these symbols. According to this perspective, people gave meanings to symbols or start attaching meaning to certain symbols, and then they act according to their personal interpretation of these symbols. Verbal conversations, in which spoken words serve as the main symbols that have certain meaning, make this subjective understanding more obvious. The words have a certain meaning from the “sender,” and, if the communication is effective, they hopefully have the same meaning for the “receiver.” Thus words are not fixed “things”; they require target and understanding. Conversation is an interaction of symbols between individuals who deal around within the world. Anything can serve as a symbol as long as it refers to something ahead of itself. Written music serves as an example. Thus, symbolic interactionists give serious consideration to how people behave, and then seek to determine what meanings individuals allot to their own actions and symbols, and to those of others and sustain human relationship. For example, high rates of suicide among teenagers and early adulthood and gender equality. This is a micro approach as it deals with individuals …show more content…
It defines that every aspect of society is co-dependent and contributes to society's performance as a whole. For example, the government, or state, provides education for the children of the family, which in turn pays taxes on which the state depends to keep itself running. That is, the family is dependent upon the school to help children grow up to have good jobs so that they can raise and support their own families. If everything goes as planned and well then society produce order, stability, and productivity. It directs that the system evolves due to some need that is necessity to be met. Then people create such social structures to meet these needs which then balance the society. The functionalist believes that best means to understand society as a whole is to understand how parts of society are interrelated. Functionalists consider that society is held collectively by social compromise, or structure, in which members of the society agree upon, and work together to achieve, the best for society. For example, stratification rewards those who contribute most to
It considers the symbols use in daily life, what these symbols mean, and how people interact with each other through these symbols. According to this perspective, people gave meanings to symbols or start attaching meaning to certain symbols, and then they act according to their personal interpretation of these symbols. Verbal conversations, in which spoken words serve as the main symbols that have certain meaning, make this subjective understanding more obvious. The words have a certain meaning from the “sender,” and, if the communication is effective, they hopefully have the same meaning for the “receiver.” Thus words are not fixed “things”; they require target and understanding. Conversation is an interaction of symbols between individuals who deal around within the world. Anything can serve as a symbol as long as it refers to something ahead of itself. Written music serves as an example. Thus, symbolic interactionists give serious consideration to how people behave, and then seek to determine what meanings individuals allot to their own actions and symbols, and to those of others and sustain human relationship. For example, high rates of suicide among teenagers and early adulthood and gender equality. This is a micro approach as it deals with individuals …show more content…
It defines that every aspect of society is co-dependent and contributes to society's performance as a whole. For example, the government, or state, provides education for the children of the family, which in turn pays taxes on which the state depends to keep itself running. That is, the family is dependent upon the school to help children grow up to have good jobs so that they can raise and support their own families. If everything goes as planned and well then society produce order, stability, and productivity. It directs that the system evolves due to some need that is necessity to be met. Then people create such social structures to meet these needs which then balance the society. The functionalist believes that best means to understand society as a whole is to understand how parts of society are interrelated. Functionalists consider that society is held collectively by social compromise, or structure, in which members of the society agree upon, and work together to achieve, the best for society. For example, stratification rewards those who contribute most to