What are the differences between macro and micro sociolinguistics?

Answer 1

macrosociology looks at the larger scale (have a look at structural functionalism which takes this view). It looks at society as a whole. Microsociology on the other hand looks at the individual (look at symbolic interactionalism which takes this view). This view looks at a problem from the smaller bits which are connected. Take the Corbe boy who has been on tv in recent times. The macrosociology perspective will look at society and how it has influenced this boy to act the way he does. The causes of this can be through media, social norms, stereotypes etc. The microsociology perspective however looks at the corbe boy himself as one of the problems and will then look at why he chose to do what he did, how did it get this far, they will look at the parents, his peers, etc. I hope this helps

Answer 2

the differences and similarities between macro and micro sociology is that macro focuses on understanding and explaining processes a t level of social institutions such as education, religion and the families while micro focuses on small scale groups and how groups affect us as individuals in term of our values, beliefs and behavior. There similarities are that they focuses on understanding and interpreting social life.

Answer 3

The difference between micro and macro sociolinguistics is that micro-sociolinguistics refers to the research with a linguistic lean focusing on dialect and stylistic/register variation where as Micro Sociolinguistics looks at issues as to why immigrants keep their native language in some contexts and not in others, or how social identity can affect language.