Sociology is the study of the structure of society, human relationships, and the behavior of organized groups. It analyzes social worlds and the individuals that live within them (Dykstra-Crookshanks 2017). These studies include a wide range of subjects such as culture, gender, ethnicity, and race. Our world is filled with social issues and movies are a way for filmmakers to portray social conflicts. These movies can be made to increase awareness of issues or to simply make a statement about society. The academy award winning movie, Crash, portrayed many social issues people encounter on a day-to-day basis. The movie highlighted racism, gender roles, and social class. Being prejudice is when a person has negative beliefs, that are often inaccurate,
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The husband is portrayed as a powerful District Attorney that deals with the corporate business world while his wife is a stay at home mom and deals with the housekeeping staff, the locksmith, and taking care of their son. The movie portrays this as the patriarchal social system where the man is the powerful partner in the marriage. He has a career in the predominately male profession of politics while Jean is portrayed as the domestic wife. These roles support the concepts that the male is the provider and the female is the caregiver. This concept is also depicted in the scene where an African American couple are pulled over by the police under a false traffic violation. During this scene, we see the female passenger is assaulted by the police officer when he searches her. This assault is an example of gender struggle, where the man is shown as so powerful he can just assault the woman under false pretenses during a body search. These two characters are shown later in the movie when the woman is in a fiery car crash. The same officer who had assaulted her is the first responder to the crash and he is now portrayed as the woman’s rescuer. The scene is the classic damsel in distress and this police officer is there to save her. The scene would not have worked if a female police officer showed up to perform the rescue. Society doesn’t visualize women as being the savior in these types of
The husband is portrayed as a powerful District Attorney that deals with the corporate business world while his wife is a stay at home mom and deals with the housekeeping staff, the locksmith, and taking care of their son. The movie portrays this as the patriarchal social system where the man is the powerful partner in the marriage. He has a career in the predominately male profession of politics while Jean is portrayed as the domestic wife. These roles support the concepts that the male is the provider and the female is the caregiver. This concept is also depicted in the scene where an African American couple are pulled over by the police under a false traffic violation. During this scene, we see the female passenger is assaulted by the police officer when he searches her. This assault is an example of gender struggle, where the man is shown as so powerful he can just assault the woman under false pretenses during a body search. These two characters are shown later in the movie when the woman is in a fiery car crash. The same officer who had assaulted her is the first responder to the crash and he is now portrayed as the woman’s rescuer. The scene is the classic damsel in distress and this police officer is there to save her. The scene would not have worked if a female police officer showed up to perform the rescue. Society doesn’t visualize women as being the savior in these types of