Miguel Is a Researcher Who Studies the Ways People Interpret

question 64

Multiple Choice

Miguel is a researcher who studies the ways people interpret the social world and the meanings they ascribe to it. He applies this approach to health and illness as a corrective to some of Talcott Parsons's work. What school of sociology mentioned in the textbook does he probably belong to?

• A) symbolic interactionist
• B) structuralist
• C) functionalist
• D) postmodernist

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