As one continues to interact with the world and its inhabitants, it is common for one to maintain a rudimentary understanding. To combat this and allow for individuals to think more deeply in their evaluation and perception, sociologists use their imagination to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces in history. After all, sociology is the study of human society, making the familiar strange through successful questioning and careful analysis (Conley 2015: 3). To guide this research, sociologists use four overarching perspectives as their magnify glass. These viewpoints are: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminist theory. For the purpose of this paper, I will be looking at symbolic
