Boyz n the Hood Boyz n the Hood is a movie that depicts the typical life of gangs in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles. A mother sends her son who seems to be passing through a wild teenage life to live with his father in South Central LA with the hope that he will instill some manners in him and hence grow into a mature man. Living in a ghetto even in the modern world has several challenges. For instance, children raised in such an environment easily turn out to be criminals and drug traffickers among others. As such, this paper analyzes Boyz n the Hood in terms of how gangs and the members are perceived.…
In this article Invitation to sociology author talks about the term culture shock and discusses how things are not the same as they look. Also, the author stated that sociology is paramount to understanding basic human interaction. The author argues about how society judges everything on their appearance He gave few examples of how society is changing. One of the examples he gave is about how people fall in love base on their wealth class and education. Most of the people don’t love the person for his or her personalities.…
For this assignment, I watched the film “Pretty in Pink” (1989). Molly Ringwald acted as Andie Walsh, a poor teenager, who lived with her single father as a working class family. Throughout the movie, she struggles with the richer students at her snobbish high school treating her more like a misfit and less of an equal because she has less money. Andie holds her head high and brushes them off. Despite her opinion on people with money, she falls for Blaine, a “richie”.…
The movie I decided to write my research paper about is my all-time favorite football movie which is called Friday Night Lights and it is the true story of the Permian Panthers high school football team. The state of Texas is known for its size and even has its own sayings such as “Everything is bigger in Texas” and “Don’t mess with Texas. Well football is very well known in Texas and people really care about the sport. Every Friday night the small town of Odessa, Texas would be empty simply because everyone was at Ratliff Stadium watching their Permian Panthers.…
Angela Birckbichler Brianne Howard Writing 111 Essay #4 Orange is the New Black shows the lives of inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary through Piper Chapman’s eyes. Piper Chapman is a white woman in her early thirties who is imprisoned in Litchfield Penitentiary for a crime committed ten years prior with her ex-girlfriend, Alex Vause. Vause and Chapman were traveling the world together when Vause was working under a man named Kubra Balik who ran an international drug cartel. Within the show, Chapman seems to defy the stereotype of the typical woman seen in prison; she’s white and comes from an upper-middle class family.…
The film ¨Tales of the Grim Sleeper¨ was a documentary about a man, named Lonnie, that killed innocent girls for drinking and doing drugs. In the film a group of interviewers go to his hometown and interview people that he either tried to kill or the people who knew things about his life and why he would have done what he did. The people that are interviewed are very straightforward and don't hold anything back. In the film there were many instances where the film was able to go along with many things we have learned in sociology.…
To live in a time and place where people are divided into two different groups and are not treated equal to one another, must have been a very difficult thing to process when your group isn’t the better half. When this time was a time when people truly believed that segregation was the best option to follow to the view that it was much safer for them and their loved ones must have been a very difficult time for the all the African Americans whose rights were denied to them and their loved ones for wanting a better education and a better life for themselves and others. When you live in a place like this, a place so poor of character it must cause you pain for not being allowed a life to live and prosper just as they do on a daily basis. Within…
Eleanor Roosevelt, a politician, diplomat, and activist, once said, “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Roosevelt’s statement helps us understand how each person creates their own lives and choices. Each person has their own individual perspective that affects how they make choices, view events, and how they look at reality.…
Sociology Is Dope The media I have chosen to analyze is Dope. The movie is about three high school seniors living in the poverty of Inglewood, CA. They call their neighborhood the Bottoms.…
Chapter 4: The Cruel Hand This chapter considers how the caste system of operation, and once people released from prison. In many ways, the release from prison does not represent the beginning of freedom, but the humiliation and cruelty of a new stage of control. Official discrimination and social discrimination follow discourage offenders released to re-enter the larger society. Numerous laws and regulations discriminate against ex-offenders, prevent its significance for economic and social re-integration into the mainstream.…
In Sam Richards video, "The Wisdom of Sociology," he speaks of his personal freedom and independence to guide him to his own destiny. But he soon realized that everyone is connected in a way, even if we don't know it. Regarding the "public issues" and "private troubles," he connects these concepts into his own life by speaking of a dark time of pain and suffering, and to end it all by committing suicide. He even used a bottle of pills as a visual to show that to accomplish the solution of his pain and suffering, was to take all the pills and end his life. Richards brings in statistics of suicide rates.…
A sociological viewpoint provides a standpoint on topics related to social problems within society. The sociologist analyzes society and how individuals interact within those societies. The issues or problems presented to the society are evaluated to determine the cause, and examines the social structures that influence certain social problems, such as financial assistance and unemployment. A social problem stems from a condition or pattern resulting in a negative consequence for individuals.…
Ever since I was a little girl, the first show I would watch in the morning was and still is the Today Show. The Today show is the first news show that I grew up watching and loving as a child. This show inspired me to pursue a career in journalism. Throughout the years the way people consume their news has drastically changed, but the Today show always stayed with the times.…
The sociological imagination is something that each human being obtains as we experience life. Whether or not we have a well-developed sociological imagination depends on if we take the time to ask meaningful questions about society. Refusing to accept simplistic answers to the questions that we pose for ourselves, regarding human beings and the world that we inhabit, is the main way to develop these inherent elements into a true sociological imagination. While reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I quickly jumped to the conclusion that Morrie would immediately give up after being diagnosed with a devastating disease.…
For this past week, I was able to take in what I observed and explain it through an ethnographic method. These observations opened my eyes through Sociology and gave me a better sociological perspective on our world today. Before this course, I always had that beginner’s mind in the way I saw society. As I made the effort to get a closer look, I was astonished on the outlook of our world today.…