Identify and describe three sociological perspectives in sociology. (Focus on structural functional, conflict, and symbolic interactionist theories.) You can revisit the Introduction to Sociology open textbook in the Content area if you did not save your texts. Next, pick a social phenomenon and apply each theory to the topic.

Three sociological perspectives:

Structural Functional or Functionalism/ This theory propose that us individuals are the outcomes and products of the social structure and socialisation. We can say that it is the relationship between the parts of society and how it is functional.

Simple concluding that each individual has a role to play to keep our society functioning.

Conflict Theory/This theory propose that a society is in a state of perpetual conflict. For the reason for limited resources.

It is rooted to the idea where conflict naturally exist among groups for the competition for resource and power. This theory includes structural inequality, competition, revolution and war.

Symbolic Interactionism Theory/ This theory propose that is relies on symbolic meanings that people develop when it socializes or interacts with it socially. This theory analyzes society by addressing the subjective meanings  of where an individual impose on a subject, events, and behaviors.

Step-by-step explanation

Pick a social phenomenon and apply each theory to the topic:

Unemployment is a social phenomenon where the framework of capitalism does not have a job. There are two types of it. One that stays unemployed and one that seeks a job. Firstly how Structural functional theory's perspective is related is by the framework or structure of society itself. In these perspective the theory revolves around the outcomes of society that leads to unemployment. Secondly is the conflict theory's perspective where obviously conflict is one of the reason where a person remains unemployed. Reasons such as competition and structural inequality. Lastly is where symbolic interactionism theory hits. This perspective is drawn by the influence of the subjective definition of being unemployed. Even though they are aware that being unemployed is not such a good thing in terms wealth. They still remain unemployed for various of reason of the influence of subjective meaning.