Sociological Perspective Paper

I will be viewing conflict perspective in my paper. There are many different perspectives in sociology. There are three main views that are used by almost all sociologists, though. These three views, the ones most widely used by sociologists, are the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives. Together, these approaches will provide an introductory look at the discipline (Schaefer, 2006).
American Idol is a television program that showcases amateur singers in the hopes of finding one who will ultimately become the ‘American Idol’. The makers of the show travel all over the country in search for this person who the talent to fit the image of this idol. Thousands of contestants audition for a chance to become this icon. The process of elimination is used to find the one that would eventually hold this lofty title. There are several rounds of the competition where the contestants perform in the hopes of moving on the next level of the competition. It is eventually truncated down to twelve hopefuls who, every week, have to perform certain songs that are selected by the makers of the program. This is done to see if the contestants are able to sing different genres of music, in turn displaying their versatility and determining if they are in fact truly talented. The contestants perform every week. After their performance they are critiqued by a panel of expert judges who inform the contestants of the positive and negative aspects of their individual performances. Each contestant is issued their own distinctive phone number which is shown to the public after their performance. They are used to vote for the contestant of the viewer’s choice. With this method, the public decides who moves onto the next level of the program by calling the designated phone number of their favorite contestant. On the following show the three contestants with the fewest amounts of calls are grouped together, billed as the bottom three. The one with the