The strength of the symbolic interactionist perspective is that it

a. views people as active agents rather than passive participants.
b. offers a balanced view of a part's anticipated and unanticipated effects on the existing order.
c. forces us to consider how advantaged groups benefit from the way human activity is organized.
d. focuses attention on disadvantaged groups in society.


A

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