Symbolic Interactionism and Homosexuality

Symbolic Interactionism and Homosexuality



Symbolic Interactionism and Homosexuality

Introduction

Social interactionism has remained a significant concept in understanding the social behavior, to understand how the symbolic interactionism explain any rule violated is analyzed by focusing on homosexuality his paper gives an account of various authors and theorists in explaining the view point of symbolic interactionism in terms of the definition of homosexuality and the relationship of symbolic interactionism with it.

Homosexuality

Etymologically, homosexual means "equal" (from the Latin homo) and "Sex" (Latin sexus). Finding a precise definition of the concept is much more complex. Homosexuality occurs in specific individuals, with all the multiplicity of their characteristics. However, in the literature, several definitions can be found. In particular Homosexuality is presented as the human condition a person who, at the level of sexuality, is characterized to express sex only with partners of their same sex ". It may be the conduct in which they have sex only with a member of the same sex. A homosexual is a person who understands sexuality differently from others and put into practice their convictions (West, 2008). Homosexuality has always existed and in many societies some forms of homosexuality are accepted and even expected that sexual orientation runs along this path. Homosexual behavior also appears, at times, many teens, as an expression of their intense sexual urges in a society that prohibits heterosexual explorations they would have preferred (Hagan, 1989). Homosexuality is a symptom of a problem is emotional and needs unmet emotional since childhood, especially in relation with the parent of the same sex. In other words, for the boy who has not had an emotional connection with the father and the girl who has had emotional care by the mother, it can induce them to develop a symptom of same-sex attraction or homosexuality (West, 2008).

Kelly (1995) defines homosexuality where a person has to interact with people of their same kind not necessarily voluntary. The analysis, selection and decision with a clear trend towards people with similar preferences. He emphasizes that it is an attraction as individuals derive pleasure to see and relate to people with certain phenotypic characteristics of each gender. Sagarin (1975) after carrying out a research with several gay teens, define the homosexuality as "a term that helps to refer to the inclination of desire subject to a person of the same sex.” The author makes a distinction between homosexuality and gay, understanding the latter as "a set of social experiences that structure a specific subjectivity, with its own rites of passage, myths. This means that identification involves gay with that group, and that subjective identity is constructed from relations and group processes that are established with such a minority. Also suggest that while you can be gay, is not necessarily gay, as the latter relation implies moving within the gay community. The authors' note that while it allows gays gay a space where can be who you are, not necessarily what defines gay teens or processes in each case of homosexuality (Sagarin, ...