Self-concepts are an individual 's perception of their own actions, potential, and distinctive characteristics. These self-concepts give the individual an essential motive for behavior. Furthermore, the theory states that people and groups are influenced by cultural and social processes. Therefore, social structure is worked out through social interaction. This paper aims to analyze symbolic interaction theory, discuss its history, criticisms, as well as emphasizing the current social condition of gender inequality which relates to it.
1); as well as aspects of categorizing concepts with reference to factors in social psychology. For example, the article titled, ‘Prototype Theory: An Alternative Concept Theory for Categorizing Sex and Gender?’ seek to explore the prototype theory to determine whether it captures the fluidity of gender and is able to accommodate transgender and queer identities. The article clearly defined the features of the category labelled ‘woman’ on the basis of sex and gender and applied the prototype theory to these concepts as it relates to the hierarchal levels of categorization. According to Fox (2011), utilizing the prototype theory as a theoretical framework for the concepts of sex and gender provides structural flexibility and inclusiveness (Fox, 2011). In addition, the “family resemblance” stabilizes both concepts enough to accommodate the variations and overlapping idealized features such that the author concluded that the prototype theory can capture the fluidity of gender and thus is able to explain why transgender and queer identities are now incorporated in the concept of gender.
A. Description of the background of Dr. Clare Grave’s Value Systems Theory Dr. Graves ' Value Systems Theory speaks to the formative continuum of human thought with the development of what are presently being called as MEMEs. A MEME is a psycho-social likeness in an organic quality. They are data sets that can repeat and spread among human populaces and crosswise over eras. MEMEs are methods for considering things, the establishments of perspectives, and the choice structures on which esteem frameworks and moral structures are based upon.
Generally speaking, we as human beings live in groups, societies and communities. These societies or groups have certain forms of habits or behaviors and this is what is known as culture. One of the major components of the definition of culture is language; hence, David Crystal said ‘there ought to be a word languaculture . ’Therefore, it has been acknowledged that language is the instrument that is used to express feelings attitudes, assumptions or to convey messages. Thus, diversities within communities resulted in the difference within the languages that is used to address the needs and hopes of those societies, a matter which led to the existence of the so-called phenomenon of multilingualism which is an integral part of global citizenship.
The sociological perspective is the study of human life and social interactions, it also studies how those interactions mould groups and society as a whole. A sociological perspective goes past the manifest and challenge what is accepted as common-sense. Since sociologists analyze social phenomena at different levels, they come up with different perspectives to understand social life, social change and the social causes and consequences of human behaviour, each uniquely viewing society in their own way. In this paper we are going to look at the main sociological perspectives. Functionalism, is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability .
In her paper, Barnes presented George Herbert Mead’s notions on the effect of media on people’s concept and/or perception of self as ‘social objects in relationship with others’. But before further discussing the usefulness of media ecology in analysing interpersonal mediated communication, Barnes found it necessary to discuss George Herbert Mead’s symbolic interactionism
The turn to the multimodal in the understanding of meaning, started as an extension of the social interpretation of language (Halliday, 1978) and its whole range of modes and their relationships for making meaning in a culture. Kress and Van Leeuwen define multimodality as ‘the use of several semiotic modes in the design of a semiotic product or event (2001)’ with attention to people’s situated choices of resources for meaning-making. In other words, multimodality emphasizes how people make meaning in a social context to achieve specific aims. Thus,
The social concept also social construction of reality (Social constructionism) is considered a theory of knowledge in sociology which evaluates the advancement of mutually created understandings of the world which is a basis for the formation of collective assumptions on reality. The theory affirms the opinion that people rationalize their experience through creating models of their social world and later sharing such models via language. Dating from the work of Berger and Luckmann (1966) different authors have put forth their contribution and ideas on social constructionizm. Berger and Luckmann dispute that all knowledge is gained and maintained from social interactions. Apparently according to the two authors people interact bearing in mind
They enlist the concept of ideology to theorize the subjugation of one social group to other social groups. Critical Discourse Analysis focuses on the discursive practices which construct the representations of the world, social subjects and social relations, including power relations. The discursive practices play a major role within social groups. Fairclough defines critical discourse analysis as an approach which seeks to investigate systematically. “Often opaque relationships of causality and determination between (a) discursive practices, events and texts and (b) broader social and cultural structures, relations and processes
In the context of sociology of knowledge which is the study of relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. Classification system that is applied once in our culture that gave the impacts on the sociology of knowledge. What is it to be