The sociological perspective that I will use along with social capital to analyze my incident is symbolic interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is seen as a social institution that emphasizes on how communicating face to face, adds more personal value and thoughts into the conversation. It also connects people’s thoughts and their personal experience and conditions (Brym and lie 2015:6). Social Capital is defined as the amount of people in one friend’s circle and amount of people one knows (Brym and lie 2015:121).
Based on my experiences, coming from a well educated and well off middle class Hindu family, I have been given a certain goal of getting one of the best education and to achieve really high marks. Due to my social class, of where …show more content…
According to Mark Granovetter, our weaker relationships tend to benefit us professionally while closer relationships tend to support us emotionally (Brym and lie 2015:5). In my scenario, I used my social capital by asking my close friend to help me gain access to a weak acquaintance. This acquaintance would help me achieve a really high mark in the project, and it will prevent me from failing and letting my parents …show more content…
He said he had no idea as he has not taken the course, but his other friend has fast tracked the course and can easily help me out, as he is referred to as a computer programing and hardware genius. I tried to convince my close friend to ask his other friend to help me out, but my close friend refused to do, but gave me his name and told me to talk to him. So I decided to search this acquaintance up on Facebook and messaged him, and asked for help, and he straight away said no, because he had no idea who I was. Then I personally approached him in the computer science room during lunch break and had a face-to-face conversation. At first he was completely trying to ignore me and just made it seem like he is busy. As I gradually humbly requested him to help, he could analyze that I am desperate, worried and concerned about this project. I was fidgeting with my hands and folded my hands and took deep breaths and I told him that I am willing to spend my whole weekend and stay late after school until the project is due. Then I realized that that my acquaintance used George Herbert Mead’s theory of taking the position of another person by visualizing himself from my of view,
Based on my experiences, coming from a well educated and well off middle class Hindu family, I have been given a certain goal of getting one of the best education and to achieve really high marks. Due to my social class, of where …show more content…
According to Mark Granovetter, our weaker relationships tend to benefit us professionally while closer relationships tend to support us emotionally (Brym and lie 2015:5). In my scenario, I used my social capital by asking my close friend to help me gain access to a weak acquaintance. This acquaintance would help me achieve a really high mark in the project, and it will prevent me from failing and letting my parents …show more content…
He said he had no idea as he has not taken the course, but his other friend has fast tracked the course and can easily help me out, as he is referred to as a computer programing and hardware genius. I tried to convince my close friend to ask his other friend to help me out, but my close friend refused to do, but gave me his name and told me to talk to him. So I decided to search this acquaintance up on Facebook and messaged him, and asked for help, and he straight away said no, because he had no idea who I was. Then I personally approached him in the computer science room during lunch break and had a face-to-face conversation. At first he was completely trying to ignore me and just made it seem like he is busy. As I gradually humbly requested him to help, he could analyze that I am desperate, worried and concerned about this project. I was fidgeting with my hands and folded my hands and took deep breaths and I told him that I am willing to spend my whole weekend and stay late after school until the project is due. Then I realized that that my acquaintance used George Herbert Mead’s theory of taking the position of another person by visualizing himself from my of view,