Sociological Perspective Analysis

Sociological perspectives have contributed to the deepening of my understanding through giving me more and different perspectives to view the world, societies, cultures, and individuals. These sociological perspectives have given me more insight into how society functions and is connected, how conflict engineers social change, and how people interact and why they interact in this particular way.
In my last essay for this semester, I will first discuss the structural-functionalist perspective, which shows how society functions and is connected. Structural-functionalism views society as a complex system, made up of several different parts which work together to solidify, stabilize, and define a society.
A structural-functionalist approach discusses that everyone’s lives are formed from their individual social structures, such as their religion, family, or community. These structures continually form our lives and affect the way we act. These social structures contain social functions which affect the whole society, and these functions are the consequences of the society’s actions and beliefs.
This view has led me to focus on the benefits of society, and how connected our society is. This perspective has helped me understand the core elements of our society, and how and why society runs in certain ways. The structural-functionalist perspective, as well as the other theoretical perspectives, has deepened my understanding and perspective of the society.
Next, I will use the sociological concepts of social construction of reality, impression management, and the looking-glass self to show how these sociological perspectives, as well as others, have enlarged my view of the social