Conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and structural functionalism.

  Summarize conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and structural functionalism. Explain why you are in college based on each of the three theoretical perspectives. Explain which of the three theoretical perspectives best describe why you are pursuing higher education. Explain the sociological imagination (SI) and what it means to reflect upon one’s life using the sociological imagination. Describe a recent situation in which a choice you made was influenced by societal pressures. Using your sociological imagination, explain how those societal pressures may have been different for your parents and grandparents when they were your age?