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Gayle was shopping and did not have much money to buy a lot of groceries. She saw a sign with a yellow smiley face and decided to shop at that store because she associated that sign with lower prices. Which sociological perspective explains why Gayle thought this way?

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Symbolic interactionism

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Symbolic interactionism refers to social behavior in terms of how people interact with each other and the environment via symbols, in other words, it helps to analyzes the society by addressing the subjective meanings that people impose on objects, events, and behaviors or focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society.

Analyze human interactions by focusing on the meanings that individuals assign to things in the world around,symbols are culturally derived social objects having shared meanings that are created and maintained in social interaction.

Gayle was shopping and did not have much money to buy a lot of groceries. She saw a sign with a yellow smiley face (symbols)and decided to shop at that store because she associated that sign with lower prices

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