Explain The Three Sociological Perspectives In The Workplace

There are three major sociological perspectives: conflict theory, functionalist theory, and symbolic interaction theory. Applying these three sociological perspectives to a workplace, such as a restaurant, a factory, fast food companies, and etc, it will mostly be concentrated on a restaurant. For example in a restaurant there is conflict theory, functionalism theory, and symbolic interactionism; each of these sociological perspectives has different effects on society. These three sociological perspectives lead to manifest function, social construction, and competing interests. Social construction is self-identity how an individual shows his or her identity. A manifest function is a group or community in the society, the way people interact with each other. Competing interest is a competition between different social classes, it is gain or loss. In the workplace there are many issues one of them is; capitalism in a workplace, democracy in the workplace, and salaries in a workplace, these lead to conflict theory.

For example, in a restaurant, each employee has their own tasks. The chef needs to prepare the food for the servers, the servers take orders from the customers, the hostess brings water and bread for the customers and refills their water as needed, and managers assigns a task and takes care if there is any problem. As waitress tasks: serves the customers, takes orders, serves food, gets the tip, and is responsible for the cash drawer. Furthermore, the manifest function is tasks that workers are assigned to complete, to prevent any issues. The task of a chef at the restaurant, cooking and serving; the chef cooks and can interact with customers. (Fabricant, Florence 2017, p. 1). However, every chef is different, in different restaurants; the Sola Pasta Bar, a chef tossing pasta, and sauce at work, the Chinese cooking style is a hard