Miguel is a researcher who studies the ways people interpret the social world and the meanings they ascribe to it. He applies this approach to health and illness as a corrective to some of Talcott Parsons's work. What school of sociology mentioned in the textbook does he probably belong to?

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Miguel's focus on the ways people interpret and give meaning to their social world aligns with the symbolic interactionist perspective. The reference to Parsons suggests that he is critiquing or building upon the functionalist perspective, which is a separate theoretical orientation. Miguel's work does not necessarily align with the structuralist or postmodernist schools of sociology.

Miguel Is a Researcher Who Studies the Ways People Interpret