Symbolic Interactionist

This approach would look at the idea of family in terms of how each 'social interaction' defined their role within the social setting called the family. Sociologists argue that reality is socially constructed and that we make our own reality within social groups. Peter Berger and Hansfried Kellner were among the first sociologists to apply an interpretive approach to the family. Berger and Kellner see marriage as a crucial relationship for the construction of reality.They have come from two different famillies with different definitions of the world.