Coach Carter Sociology

Coach Carter, this movie changed my life and opened my eyes into the macro perspective in how the film displays positive and negative changes in social and technological changes. I will convey how Coach Carter transformed many uneducated, poor, unpassionate high school basketball losers into not only winners, but passionate educated men of society. Coach Carter takes over as head basketball coach at Richmond high school, where he graduated and was the all-time leading scorer and assist maker. The players of Richmond are unpassionate, lazy, vulgar and undisciplined. The Richmond Oilers just finished the season with the worst record in school history and decisions to possible shut down the program were in question. Fortunately, Ken Carter arrived to save the city and team from dismantle. Coach Carter didn’t take long to let his new players know what he expects. Right from the start, first meeting Coach Carter does not put up with any nonsense, he creates rules and guidelines that must essentially be followed if the players want to stay on …show more content…
The whole film revolves around the conflict theory. The boys struggling with poverty and gang violence, overcoming the reality of being bad as a team and finding a positive solution. Overcoming people saying racial slurs while at away games to try and get you to snap and get disqualified. Furthermore, viewing the team and its goals as something larger than themselves alone. This statement by Green states, “The social conflict view sees sport as a reflection of the inequalities in society and that it masks the true nature of the human condition. Sport serves as the "opium of the masses." Sport is seen as a social institution which the more powerful oppress, manipulate, coerce and exploit the less powerful.” (Green, 1998). This is relatable to Richmond High because the boys suffered from constant negative comments throughout the season because of what happened in the