The Blindside Sociology

For this assignment I chose the Blindside. There are a couple reasons I chose this movie, one being it is the only movie I had on DVD, and the other being that it has to do with my future career. I hope to work with adoption and foster care, as well as low income communities. This movie was filmed and publicized in 2009, and was based off of a true story. The story line is about a character named Michael Oher, or in the beginning he is called Big Mike. Within minutes of the movie, you learn that Mike was raised in the projects of Tennessee, and was raised in a drug home with little support. Mike had been brought to a Christian private school called Wingates, by an adult fatherly figure along with one his friends. The adult went to the coach …show more content…
Understanding the environment and how it works, what it does, and why it changing the client, is a large part of macro studies. You can study the environment on one person, but the best affects are the commonalities among multiple populations or cultures. This perspective allows the social worker to work with the largest and most distant collection of people or places to the client that still has a large impact on them. You can use this to study the client’s political and economic beliefs, and the affect these large systems have on them. The study I found mentioned used the ecosystem to study the levels of the client’s culture, and their behavioral changes through this culture. (Erez, & Gati, 004). One example I found in the movie is the fact that when Mike moved to his new school at Wingate, he was uncomfortable, shy, and had no desire. These traits could have stemmed off of the fact that he was new and could feel everyone staring and gawking at him. One way this could be studied in a macro setting is by working with the students and the organizations and figuring out how they could interact with this reasoning. It can also relate to the study of the school facility and what they are doing to help Mike progress and do