SOC201 Final Assignment: Micro - Sociological Analysis

SOC201-Final: Micro-Sociological Analysis
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SOC201-Final: Micro-Sociological Analysis
Introduction
In the recent days, BBC News has captured several conversations of people which depict racism on the normal interactions. The trend has shot higher since the United Kingdom passed the move to pull out of the European Union. It is reported that in the Month of July only, over 3236 cases of racism crime were reported to police posts in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales. After the 23rd June Ballot decision, hate crimes have risen by 57% as reported by police. There are over 6000 hate crimes reported in the months of June and July. Some of the hate crimes captured are presented below.
"Why are you still here?" a customer asked Lithuanian-born Alma Milaseviciute, 31, as she stood at the counter of the cheese shop where she works in Ludlow, Shropshire. "Good luck on your way back," another sneered. "Get out of my country," yelled a man at Esmat Jeraj, 26, after swearing at her. He'd spotted her wearing a hijab as she walked to work in Whitechapel, east London. Jeraj was born and raised in the UK(Kelly, 2016).
"You speak English, don't you?” a woman in her 60s asked Brazilian-born Danilo Venticinque, 30, at a Southampton bus stop when she overheard him talking to his Mexican wife in Spanish. "Can you understand what I'm saying? This is our country. We are leaving the EU. We will stop having so many people like you over here."
Each of these incidents took place in the referendum on European Union membership. All three victims are at pains to acknowledge the perpetrators represent a minority of Britons and that most people in the UK would be horrified by this behavior. Prominent Leave campaigners have also strongly condemned the abusive and bigoted behavior of this kind (Kelly, 2016).
Micro-Sociological Analysis
This scenario presents a social problem that is racism. To analyze it properly, it is essential to consider the symbolic interaction theory. Symbolic interactionism theory provides a basic theoretical foundation from which social scientists can base when analyzing interactions among groups of people and individuals (Charmaz, 2014). The theory builds on the principle that the meaning the individuals draw from and attribute to the world that surrounds them is a social construction generated from day-to-day social interactions (Charmaz, 2014). The theory focuses on how people use and interpret effects as symbols to sustain a conversation with one another, how they create and sustain a self that they present to the world as well as the self they create to themselves. It also focuses on how people develop and sustain the reality that they claim to be true (Charmaz, 2014).
Fundamental aspects of social interaction that surrounds human beings can best be understood through social interaction. In this case, we apply symbolic interactionist lens. Racism has no biological basis at all hence it is a social construct whose function is derived from the perceptions that people believe to be true of other people they encounter in the interactions (Adler, 2013). The perceptions emanate from the picture created by them and what they look like from tha...