Symbolic Interactionism • social class and our understanding of it are relative to our personal belief system • because people in the lower class have fewer financial resources, they are probably more...

Symbolic Interactionism

• social class and our understanding of it are relative to our personal belief system

• because people in the lower class have fewer financial resources, they are probably more concerned with “bread and butter” issues

• more prosperous people might try to legitimize their prosperity by pointing to individual explanations for their success