Sublime: The Right Way We all listen to music, but do we always listen and understand the lyrics? When you listen to a song for the first time, you’re just getting a feel for the song, and you enjoy the beat. The next time you listen to the song, you actually try to listen to the words. You start to understand what they are saying, and find lines you like the most and figure out what the artist means. These lyrics will be looked at from a sociological perspective, for the song “Wrong Way” by Sublime; I’ll be using course concepts for trying to understand society which include norms, values, and structure and social facts along with agency to analyze the song. In society we are all expected to live life with a set of rules that guide
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Getting a job is an acceptable form of behavior in society, which is a norm. Though that is true, working the streets is not one of those acceptable norms of behavior, so then that leads to punishments. By going against these norms they aren’t conforming to society, which goes against what we believe in. This line in the song also represents the concept of values, because having a job is something we value in this culture, but this type of job is not what we consider good, which is something a value represents. Structure and social facts are represented in the song, when they sing about how he’s only a man and takes her to the can aka the bathroom, because there’s only so much he can do to help. Even though he tries to help, the power society has over us, limits his behavior and feeds into the pattern she’s already so used to. It represents social facts and its structures, because society is more than we can control, society guides our choices more than we’d like to admit. With all that society forces upon us, when it comes to norms, values, and structures we are still capable of making our own choices. This is known as agency, while society plays a huge role in our lives, we still make decisions based on our circumstances. In the song he talks about if she doesn’t want to leave, she should just stay. He can’t make her leave, so it’s ultimately up to her. This means that even though life has given her terrible circumstances, she is still able to make individual
Getting a job is an acceptable form of behavior in society, which is a norm. Though that is true, working the streets is not one of those acceptable norms of behavior, so then that leads to punishments. By going against these norms they aren’t conforming to society, which goes against what we believe in. This line in the song also represents the concept of values, because having a job is something we value in this culture, but this type of job is not what we consider good, which is something a value represents. Structure and social facts are represented in the song, when they sing about how he’s only a man and takes her to the can aka the bathroom, because there’s only so much he can do to help. Even though he tries to help, the power society has over us, limits his behavior and feeds into the pattern she’s already so used to. It represents social facts and its structures, because society is more than we can control, society guides our choices more than we’d like to admit. With all that society forces upon us, when it comes to norms, values, and structures we are still capable of making our own choices. This is known as agency, while society plays a huge role in our lives, we still make decisions based on our circumstances. In the song he talks about if she doesn’t want to leave, she should just stay. He can’t make her leave, so it’s ultimately up to her. This means that even though life has given her terrible circumstances, she is still able to make individual