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Symbolic interactionists offer three major criticisms of the urban ecological approach to explaining urban social life. Explain them.
Criticisms of Symbolic interaction
The symbolic interactions are derived from the qualitative data rather than quantitative data giving the interactions based on experience. The interactions can be based on the way the person reacts. Examples like
· Traffic lights,
· Mobile screens
· Advertising hoardings are for urban social life.
The traffic lights give an interaction between the drivers and traffic control about the ways to drive in urban areas without any interaction based on symbols. Similarly, the people on the mobile phone get their stimuli from the phone where the people outside can’t understand the way the person is going to behave with others as they are in their world. The advertising screens display products and services without a word where people tend to understand the content without any interaction with others. Thus in urban situations, the people get the message through these mediums to derive the data presented without any direct communication whatsoever.