According to the Interactionist perspective, what does religious membership, worship, and organization provide the individual member of society?

Symbolic interactionism does not specify what these aspects of religion offer to an individual member of society.  Interactionism does not believe that we are able to make these kinds of generalizations.  Instead, this perspective would say that different individuals derive different things from their membership in a religion and their participation in religious worship.

Symbolic interactionism is the only main perspective in sociology that looks at the micro level.  This perspective looks at individuals, not at large groups.  It holds that we create our own identities by interacting with other people and with aspects of our society and by interpreting those interactions.  What this means is that every person can create their own reality by interpreting the interactions in their own way.  People do not necessarily interpret things in the same way.

When we apply this idea to your question, we can see that interactionism will not specify what religion offers all people.  An interactionist would say that each person who joins a religion and participates in worship can experience those interactions in different ways.  According to this perspective, what religion provides an individual depends on the ways in which the individual perceives things.  Therefore, religion can provide many different things to many different people.

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