My Social Identity: Contemporary Sociological Perspective

My Social Identity
Society as whole is made of individuals each living their day-to-day lives with there own social identities. Those social identities correlate directly to cotemporary sociological perspectives. Most of theses people go on unaware of these perspectives with an everyday taken-for-granted perspective. In this paper I will go into a deeper investigation of the relationship between society and myself using my social identity. The status set I will use to examine these contemporary sociological perspectives include the statuses of sister, daughter, student, driver and friend. The four contemporary sociological perspectives I will further explore using this status set are functionalism, conflict theory, feminist theories, and symbolic …show more content…
From the achieved status of teenage driver I use symbolic communication every time I set foot in car. Each driver in our society has the basic knowledge of how traffic works and what signs such as a stop sign mean but there are forms on nonverbal communication that we use but are not taught as drivers. One instance that comes to mind when I am driving is when you use the gesture of a wave to signal the other car come out in from of you when traffic is busy and they are pulling in for a non-main road and they put their hand up signaling back thank you. We both in that occurrence used everyday behavior of driving to express the attitudes such as kindness and gratitude without even saying a word to each other. We communicate this kind of information constantly as drivers without even thinking twice about it all over society. I am a small part of the large community of drivers each using symbolic interaction, and most of us are going about living with a taken-for-granted attitude without even considering the symbolic interaction that goes behind