Author(s)

Shi Gaoyang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Asian and Policy Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

Corresponding Author

Shi Gaoyang

ABSTRACT

This article comments on the Black Lives Matter movement from the perspective of symbolic interactionism, discusses the relationship between this sociological perspective and the BLM movement and its specific manifestations from three aspects: double consciousness, the symbols of race and interactionism. By analysis, white elites through the ALM movement and African Americans through social media, both of which have intensified social contradictions. The racial prejudice in social interaction became more and more obvious, the differences between races were intensified, the black race was marginalized, and the social movement was politicized. The symbolic sense of race is growing stronger, and the bias in the interaction is becoming more obvious.

KEYWORDS

BLM; symbolic Interactionism; ALM; social media

CITE THIS PAPER

Shi Gaoyang, A Sociological Perspective: the Black Lives Matter Movement. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 63-66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050613.

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