Sociology

The film Gun Crazy gives an important example of characters being consumed by several damaging fixations, namely the allure of femme fatales and possessing a dangerous gun fetish. This film is a psychological tale, as film author Foster Hirsch notes in his book The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, “Gun Crazy makes passing stabs at a variety of meaty subjects: the place of violence in American life; the link between violence and sex; the emasculating obsession with masculinity” (Hirsch 195).…

Aladdin, is set in the big bustling town of Agrabah. The society is filled with poverty and crime, with a division between the rich and poor. Aladdin who is a “street rat”, doesn’t have much and has to commit crimes to be able to eat and survive, he even shares his meals with people who have less than him and have to forage for food elsewhere. Throughout the movie, he has to go through multiple challenges to find the genie lamp pertaining to the evil character Jafar, as he is trying to take over…

Despite men being the dominant ones in our culture, more boys are falling behind. According to Claire Miller of the New York Times, “They graduate from high school and attend college at lower rates than girls and are more likely to get in trouble, which can hurt them when they enter the job market.” The reason for this Miller explains, is that boys are sensitive to disadvantage. As society shames boys who show emotion, things like growing up in poverty and not having a father around really takes…

Gender roles play a big part in my family and community. For example, for events that a person hosts the children always eat first then the men, and the women are last. This has been going on my whole life. I was not trying to test my experiment on this but it just happened to go along with my experiment. I defiantly wanted to see what people’s reactions were when I would take their food off their plates. I have known these people I whole life, some better than others. Before the events start,…

Gun violence is a social problem in the United States, in which a person use a gun to assault others. Before, I have never thought that this social issue would leave an impact on our society. However, as I recently became a United States citizen, I want to learn more about the country I live in and gun violence is one the social topics that has alway talk about in America. I know that America has the highest rate of gun violence incidents compare to other countries, and this fact makes me very…

Those who were born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 are known as baby boomers. The baby boom is defined as having occurred during the peak years of this roller coaster ride: its legacy was a population bulge destined to leave its imprint on each phase of the life cycle (MacUnovich). Baby boomers represent the largest generational birth cohort in United States history, making about 76.5 million in total (MacUnovich). Though there is no definitive answer, some effects that were stated…

Stories involving transgender people have been in newspapers, magazines, and tabloids for over fifty five years and have captivated and intrigued the American audience from the start. It all began in 1955 when Christine Jorgensen, born George, publicly announced her gender confirming surgery and began life as a legally recognized women. There was a media frenzy with headlines such as “Bronx GI Becomes a Woman!” and “Bronx ‘Boy’ Is Now A Girl”. But instead of “withdraw[ing] from public attention…

In Precious (2009), Precious suffers verbal, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of her mother and father. Detaching herself from the violence, Precious builds a fantasy world rampant with fame, romance, and normalcy. Being abused at such a young age renders Precious powerless, therefore illustarting that she has limited control over the effects abuse has on her. Precious is constantly let down by adults and systems meant to protect her. Precious’s mother, Mary, constantly diminishes her…

1. “Into the Wild” was a great movie and I really enjoyed getting to watch it in sociology class. Not only was the story itself amazing, exhilarating and breathtaking had an amazing lesson to teach. Everyone while growing up at one point in their life is bewildered, sad and indecisive who presumes it a good idea to run away from home. Children and young teens want to run away from home because they are ultimately enraged at how their parents treat, raise and/or punish them. Chris had finally…

The stigma associated with mental illness is resided in a long, unfortunate history of socially and culturally sculpted abuse and discrimination. This has resulted in many negative effects on those suffering from mental illnesses. Throughout this history, drastic evolutions of social, cultural and scientific understandings took place, which ultimately led to improved knowledge of mental illnesses. Today, mental illness or mental disorder is defined as “a mental or bodily condition marked…