A Weakness of the Symbolic Interactionist View of Racial-Ethnic Relations

question 82

True/False

A weakness of the symbolic interactionist view of racial-ethnic relations is that it does not clearly explain why labeling, selective perception, and racial bias are more common among some people than others, especially when they are similar on a number of variables such as social class and gender.

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