When you think of social relationships and systems, you need to consider sociology holds many theories that can help you to better understand and interact with the world.

Sociological Theories include a compound of competing frameworks that try to explain the same phenomena in different ways.

They also deal with the approach that covers a huge range of different social systems and their issues.

There are three major sociological theories that people should learn about. They are:

The Interactionist Perspective: its main emphasis is on the fact that humans react to their perceived definition of their circumstances. It lacks objective evaluation. Therefore, the things you might consider real are capable of being real in consequence, even if your beliefs are incorrect. 

The Functionalist Perspective: it involves a traditional example of macro-sociology. Its main focus is on the interconnected relationships between various systems within society and with how part and whole influence each other in order to keep society in a state of balance.

The Conflict Perspective: it analyzes society as being composed of groups with their own distinct interests. Their theorists think of progress as a zero sum game, whereas progress for one group comes at the expense of another. That is to say you need to pay attention to which groups have power presently, and who is benefiting from existing social arrangements.

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