You Should Be Married Analysis

You should be Married
Sociology can found in everywhere one which may be found through humor,especially throughout our daily lives. Sociology is the systematic study of human behavior in society (Benokraitis,2016). A joke is a made to generate the reaction of laughter from the audience at which the joke is being told to or shown but from a sociological perspective a joke will be broken down and examined to it’s deeper meaning behind the “joke” and the real humor of it is or and in some cases there really isn’t any humor at all. We then tend to cover up issues with humor but look at who are the ones really laughing. To further explain this joke of this young woman who’s in tiny room with a bed on the floor and a baby at her ankle and a caucasian man in the room telling her she’s being weighed down due to non-marital status ignoring all other factors that are weighing her down the most adding in “unless you’re gay”. Although not being married with a child is a component leading to poverty let’s take a …show more content…
By looking at the joke, there is a struggle between the have and have nots definitely as this woman who is struggling is being told by someone who indeed isn 't struggling nor is he trying to help the although he thinks he is with his opinionated proposition to her problem. You can clearly depict who have and who doesn’t. There will always be a struggle and competition for resources that are unseemly controlled by a higher power which in this cartoon that would be the male. The conflicts that are steadily emerging into the economy in the United states can greatly be made clear through the conflict theory. While in the cartoon, it brings insight to many different aspects of sociology. Which can all correlate with conflict theory and is exemplified in the humor