Examples Of Symbolic Interactionism

Visualize a Tuesday night where there are only three registers open at the local grocer. The lines are lengthy and the customers are edgy. What’s worse is that one of the lines is at a standstill thanks to a customer complaining about the price of their five packs of fried chicken. The victim of this customer’s objection is a young cashier who does not appear a day over eighteen. The customer is outraged and claims that his chicken should be free based on his food stamps. She, the cashier, denies him this opportunity by stating that his food stamps are for a raw package of chicken. The objection turns into a childish tantrum and only progresses from there. The gaping customers are surprised at the cashier’s lack of hostility throughout the dispute. Unbeknownst to the bystanders, the cashier is essentially disguising her true self. She is at work where professionalism is demanded and in these demands is no place for curses and insults. This act is Symbolic Interactionism.
He believes that in doing so he will somehow verify that he is right, that he is smarter than she, and that at the conclusion of it all he is prevailing. Now this is not in the sense of super powers or physical strength but the power of success. By putting down the cashier, he is building himself up as well as giving an example of Social Conflict. He is making her feel like a lesser, unequal existence. She can strike back by showing him the food stamp’s print, perhaps compare the food stamp’s listed content and the purchased item, and can even break away from her act of an employee and inquiry about his mentality. No matter which action she takes she too would be committing the exact same theory. If her rudeness is excluded, she is not attempting to put the man down, but show him that she is correct. By doing so, she is giving herself