Sociology encompasses several theories that help us understand human behavior; one that is still present is the Symbolic Interactions theory. The article “More women are running in this election than ever before – 30 per cent of candidates, By Leslie Young,” heavily portrays symbolic interactions within political issues. There are many critiques questioning the ability of this theory, whether or not do symbols really provide meaning to our world, whether these symbols affect the way we communicate in our society to bring meaning to things, however it is true that these symbolic interactions have and will affect the way we behave towards politics. Humans natural instinct is to be judgmental and perceive their own interpretation to things that
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In the article it is mentioned how the presence and participation of the women in the politics is valued but due to certain sociological opinions that are related to symbolic interactions, it prevents women from openly taking part in politics. The data presents to the readers how the symbolic meaning of women has begun to change but it is still not being accepted. Although It has been stated that it takes a great amount of pursuing for women to join politics, its being distinguished that bringing more women into politics helps diversify the legislation because women have different experiences to a certain matter compared to men, and women are less socially conservative, also they think about the overall group when regarding a policy. In general, symbolic interactions are present here, because women are perceived wiser and caring than the male …show more content…
It does not matter, considering we can not oppose the fact that our judgment shadows the symbolic interactions theory. We do create meanings for everything whether we like it or not. The examples presented prove that despite what criticisms are made about this theory, our perception of the society initiates us to attach meanings to everything. We as of today still have not stopped our habit of being quick to judge, because till this day women are still self conscious and have lower confidence levels than they should have in this time of the century. No matter how modernized the century becomes the theory does not consider the fact that it needs to modernize itself with
In the article it is mentioned how the presence and participation of the women in the politics is valued but due to certain sociological opinions that are related to symbolic interactions, it prevents women from openly taking part in politics. The data presents to the readers how the symbolic meaning of women has begun to change but it is still not being accepted. Although It has been stated that it takes a great amount of pursuing for women to join politics, its being distinguished that bringing more women into politics helps diversify the legislation because women have different experiences to a certain matter compared to men, and women are less socially conservative, also they think about the overall group when regarding a policy. In general, symbolic interactions are present here, because women are perceived wiser and caring than the male …show more content…
It does not matter, considering we can not oppose the fact that our judgment shadows the symbolic interactions theory. We do create meanings for everything whether we like it or not. The examples presented prove that despite what criticisms are made about this theory, our perception of the society initiates us to attach meanings to everything. We as of today still have not stopped our habit of being quick to judge, because till this day women are still self conscious and have lower confidence levels than they should have in this time of the century. No matter how modernized the century becomes the theory does not consider the fact that it needs to modernize itself with