Social psychology according to Gordon Allport is the “ attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual imagined or implied presence of others”.(Allport as cited in Hewitt 2000;3) Sociologists are concerned with social psychology in how organized social life is possible, how it works and how it evolves over time. Whereas psychologists are focused on how individuals learn and what they learn, sociologists are concerned with …showed first 75 words of 869 total…

…showed last 75 words of 869 total…culture, but also to show how their everyday actions both sustain and change these larger realties.( Hewitt 2000; 6 ) Symbolic interactionism is an approach to social psychology that not only shows the influence of society and culture on the person but also how action and interaction both reproduce and change society. Our society’s beliefs and values influenced our interpretation and reaction to the terrorist act and the act itself has also influenced and changed our society.