Ebola Social Problem

In society there are many social problems we have at hand that can shape our beliefs and outlooks in life. Simple events affect us will have the biggest impact on our actions. Major social problems such as racism, discrimination, standard of living and even the way the media shapes are behaviors are some of the things we may come encounter with on our daily lives.
The symbolic interactionism idea is made up of the three processes which are meaning is derived from social interaction, value of the interaction process and also the idea we all interpret things in our own way. The media is everywhere we look and almost everyone is able to access it without a problem. The media put stories and news reports out all the time claiming something could be a big problem, but in reality it should not be something we should be worried about at all.
The Ebola virus is a perfect example of how the media can make us construct our own reality of things and believe what they put out. Ebola derived from Africa in Zaire, where it got its name from the Ebola River. Ebola was supposedly spread across the Atlantic Ocean by a doctor who was infected by the virus. The …show more content…
Everything on there may not be true most of it is only half truths, but each person constructs their own reality through what they see because each person is different. The interpretive process developed this idea and this is what we do, rather we realize what we are doing or not. Each and every person develops their own ideas and thoughts on things they want to see in the world. If one of us sees a movie we both will interpret everything different we see even though it is the same exact movie. The theories help us to understand everything better and things we would have never known about or understand it helps but in a more realistic way. The way we look at different things through our mind is amazing and interesting to see how others view the same world as