Symbolic Interactionism And Conflict Analysis

When it comes to race, conflict theorist apply the sense of conflict theory in order to study things like racial inequality, racial struggles, and racial dominance. They see society in terms of race being split into two groups; those that are dominant and those that are subordinate. conflict theorist takes a look at the struggles of class dominance such as access to employment, discrimination and profiling just to name a few. Symbolic interactionist see race as a symbol and as a source of meaning for one’s identity. They really look at the symbol as to what race stands for in society, what race stands for to the individual, what racism means, and how we create racism. Symbolic interactionist looks at how reality and how one’s lived experience