Section 1: The identity of a social world is a social group and view of the subject matter. The importance of violence in a society is to identify problems in where this problem comes from. Specifically, looking at a group of children where their habits involve a long amount of time on the television where they are influenced by violence. I think that views on violence in this kind of society are almost ignored. Violent behavior can influence and even corrupt those in society. For example, a child plays a videogame that has perpetual violence, then goes to school to tell the child’s friends, and they start playing games that makes their group in school more violent. This proves that micro sociology can turn into a macro, because it goes from
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The main ideas of this perspective involve individual’s everyday behavior. Such as, communication of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes. This perspective appeals to me because of it’s in depth quality. Getting to know an individual and how they work in a societal sense interests me because I always wonder why people act certain ways around others and in different groups. I do it enough to observe situations in my life and in other lives as well, because through this I can figure out and stimulate a general answer of why people act the way they do every day. Before I read this chapter I perceived that symbolic interactionism was the distinctive practice of interaction with a culture or persons given symbolic meaning of something. Now I think …show more content…
Conflict theory is the reason we draw ourselves to power differentials. This theory can be applied to the working class and power hungry individuals in the upper class. This makes it so we can decide what is better for society. Perhaps functionalism is better for society, or, maybe they can work together in different ways. People should think for themselves and I think conflict theory provides that opportunity. Karl Marx was a socialist that wanted to equally distribute earnings between the bourgeoisie and proletariats. So, he came up with the conflict theory to dissect the way the high power was maintaining their status. This theory is still useful today because it enables us to think why it happens in our contemporary
The main ideas of this perspective involve individual’s everyday behavior. Such as, communication of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes. This perspective appeals to me because of it’s in depth quality. Getting to know an individual and how they work in a societal sense interests me because I always wonder why people act certain ways around others and in different groups. I do it enough to observe situations in my life and in other lives as well, because through this I can figure out and stimulate a general answer of why people act the way they do every day. Before I read this chapter I perceived that symbolic interactionism was the distinctive practice of interaction with a culture or persons given symbolic meaning of something. Now I think …show more content…
Conflict theory is the reason we draw ourselves to power differentials. This theory can be applied to the working class and power hungry individuals in the upper class. This makes it so we can decide what is better for society. Perhaps functionalism is better for society, or, maybe they can work together in different ways. People should think for themselves and I think conflict theory provides that opportunity. Karl Marx was a socialist that wanted to equally distribute earnings between the bourgeoisie and proletariats. So, he came up with the conflict theory to dissect the way the high power was maintaining their status. This theory is still useful today because it enables us to think why it happens in our contemporary