blog week 4

Conflict theory, functionalism, and symbolic interactionism are all important factors that influence interaction between people in our everyday lives. conflict theory looks at the power structure such as on social networking sites slike facebook. Through my experiences, people that have power on facebook are the ones that put themselves out there and are well liked by the community on facebook and well respected. When this happens, they will often value their opinions and stances on issues and/or others more heavily. Functionalism is the process of sociology that works to create solidarity in society and looks at the social structure which inner elements include norms and customs. From my perspective, I see norms and customs in my community on an everyday basis at school when you are expected to not make spectacles of yourself. Lastly, symbolic interaction focuses on everyday interactions between individuals. I can relate to this because when I'm talking to friends on facebook, I often shorten up numbers by typing the number instead of spelling out the word or shortening other words to make things more convinient and quicker because or society is always in a hurry and trying to make things easier on oneself.