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Homosexuality in Our Society:Theoretical Perspective
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According to the textbook the theoretical perspective on homosexuality is the interaction perspective. The reason I selected this perspective is because the interactionist person looks at the way people socialize with their peers and other people as well as family members. The majority of them look at the outside people, which are society members. Homosexuality is a small community that is often times called the smallest minority group in the United States. On that account, the interactionist sociologists must look to see how the homosexuals are functioning in society and how society is treating them as well as accepting them. The society "norms" are saying that homosexuals are wrong and the "normal accepted" way is to be a heterosexual. The reason I chose the interactionist perspective is because of two reasons. One is the labeling theory and the other one has to deal with the social construction of homosexuals. The labeling theory defines an explanation for certain kinds of social deviance. (William Kornblum, Joseph Julian, Social Problems: Tenth Edition). The Interactionist view on labeling is that they do not look at what homosexuals do but rather what society looks at what they do.
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