Sociology

The movie was created by the Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, to show the lifestyles of the Japanese-Americans that were relocated during WW2. The immigration status of most of the people placed in relocations camps were American citizens by right of birth. The U.S. Placed them in the camps to avoid military hazard as there was great danger of invasion but did not respect their status as most were Americans with Japanese ancestry and were relocated calling them the “wounded…

Domestic Violence Victimology Soc 4573 Kristin Donnelly Kristin Donnelly Victimology Soc 4573 Domestic Violence Domestic violence is rapidly increasing in the U.S., the public is just now starting to feel all the effects of what domestic violence is doing to the future children of the world. In the 1800’s women and children was considered the property of the husband/father to punish them as he chooses. But as years have passed the public has become more aware of domestic abuse…

Ever since the origin of our species, education can be eluded to be the epicenter of our survival. The Darwinian process in which humans learned what to do and what not to do dictated their daily lives, and that knowledge was passed on to their successors, which eventually made its way onto us, the modern day human being. Historically, education in America has served both political and economic needs as it played a major role in facilitating the growth of our nation. What was once regarded…

Paris is Burning is an iconic film that gives the heterosexual world a look into the underground scene of queer culture that is the ballroom. The film presented new slang and phrases that people in the present still use, but the stories and the issues of the oppressed are often overlooked and forgotten. At the time of release in the 1990s, gay culture was still somewhat misunderstood, but Paris is Burning portrayed the struggles that gay individuals experience every day. The movie showed that…

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American Crime/ Thriller film, directed by Alan Parker, based on the FBI’s investigation into the 1964 murder case of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. As two FBI agents investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, they are met with hostility and tribulations from the citizens, local police, and the KKK. The movie opens with three young men, two white men and one black man, driving down an empty road with a line of cars…

Kids, primarily girls can either be taken from their homes or given up by their families either for money or because they think that they will have a better life in the sex industry. “The reality of child sex trafficking, however, is more disturbing than any fiction Dickens could portray. Not only are these children treated as commodities, but the traffickers trade these children to be assaulted by adults, often condemning them to an unending cycle of sexual abuse, violence, and trauma.” (Leary,…

Crash the movie centers around several social issues such as; racism, cultural norms, values, beliefs, discrimination, oppression, and many others. It’s main focus discusses the different issues that different family and individuals who are of different racial backgrounds are facing. There is a black couple who were on their way home after a night out. On their way home, they were targeted and stopped by two white police officers. While the husband was being cooperative to the officer’s order,…

Immigration exploded during the ninetieth century as our nation with through the industrial era; with this increase in population so was the increase of crime and poverty. With such vulnerabilities among the new immigrates and African Americans of the south migration from rural areas to more urban areas. The hope of more freedoms avoiding violence and racism from the Jim Crow of the south; with words of promise that the north held better jobs, created the Great Migration. The Great Migration…

The movie Easy A is set in Ojai, California at Ojai North High School. The story centers on Olive Penderghast. Olive is a junior at Ojai North and goes relatively unnoticed by the majority of the school population. That is, until she lies to her best friend Rhiannon about losing her virginity. Olive’s lie gets overheard by Marianne Bryant, who thus spreads this news to the entire school. The events that take place once the rumors of Olive’s sexual encounter begin to spread are indicative of the…

Bullying is normally experienced everyday. Victims of bullying are often small minority of children. It became a part of their lives even towards reaching adulthood. Some people have contacted Kidscape (Kidscape is a London-based charity established in 1985 by child psychologist Michelle Elliot) to report that they has started to experience bullying at an early age, including at work, in marriage and in all relationships (Elliot, 1997, p.5). According to Smith and Sharp, bullying can be seen…