City Of God Sociology

Comparatively, the inner-city demographics hindered the boy’s chances of social mobility and personal growth along with the social brutality. A city is like a machine in the sense that every part of the city works together to bring

In his critically acclaimed motion picture, “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles depicts the growth of organized crime throughout the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s in the Cidade de Deus favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via the lens of a young boy named Rocket. The film culminates in the death of the two rival gang leaders in the aftermath of a shootout between police and conflicting locals, we as the audience only experience through Rocket’s untimely habit of seeing too much. Applying the modern Psychoanalytical approach to literary analysis, understanding the City of God hinges upon both an audience's knowledge of Meirelles’ biography; which serves to explain the idiosyncrasies and nuances expressed within

The author provides the insight towards “the poor” as they are a social category that has no access to resources, along with the media’s perspective that they do not exist. The tragedy of the lower class as they stated that “forty million poor people in the nation” (Mantsios, pg. 92) are being ignored, due to the media’s views of uninterested coverage over the rich. Mantsios continues as the media finally contributes to the lower class, however in a way to portray the poor in the most disrespectful way. The media covers the lower class as “Eyesore” with “sensational stories about welfare cheats, drug addict, and greedy panhandlers” (Mantsios, pg. 93) rather than aiming on the predicament of the

In the deeper sense, the story discovers the allegory of capitalist societies where the power strictly belongs to the wealthy ones. In this respect, the city illustrates the comparison of the influential circles and poor people who are forced to subdue to the most privileged. In the broader perspective, the story constitutes the differences in the level of life between countries of First and Third World. The political constructions and characteristics of rigid economic systems are established in the way that the wealthy get the most of the benefits. In this way, the child becomes a marionette who is

The film The Gods Must Be Crazy follows the story of a tribe of people in the Kalahari Desert. These people are known as Bushmen, they live in isolation and believe that they are the only people on Earth. The Earth is of great importance to them and they live in harmony with it. The Bushmen are known as being very peaceful, and they do not understand the concept of ownership, hierarchy, or violence. The role of the gods and family are highly prioritized in the Bushmen society. When a Coca-Cola bottle falls from the sky the Bushmen see it as a gift from the gods. The Bushmen, unfamiliar with technology had never encountered an object like the bottle. The inventive Bushmen use the bottle for many purposes such as a musical instrument, crafting

The extreme economic differences between people belonging to the upper and lower classes are ridiculously extravagant. One can see the living conditions between the rich and the poor are extremely unbalanced. This trend is evident in comparing two representative districts in Lima. On one hand is Villa El Salvador, a shantytown located in the southside of Lima where dirty, misery, and hunger are part of the natural landscape on the streets. On the other hand Miraflores, a high-end residential district in Lima where people of white descent live comfortably and the settings are dramatically more favorable than in Villa El Salvador. One can see luxury cars, big houses, and domestic servants of indigenous features in Miraflores and contrast

In conclusion, the Christian Sociological framework does provide a baseline for understanding U.S. society today, and in the past. The Church, Family, and State each play a role in shaping society as set apart by God for their particular purposes. Generational differences also influence society as each generation focuses on their particular mass interests and agendas. The extent of this influence at times depends on their age and their population. This is especially true when one particular generation has more population and holds opposing values from another. The outcome of elections could be swayed because of the size of a generation.

In the beginning of the movie one can tell that the less developed, or "slums",

Reviewed in the text “Way Down in the Hole: Urban Inequality and The Wire” written by Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson, is the idea that the television show The Wire, written and directed by David Simon, reveals the comparable outlining troubles in cities and the constant change of conditions in the urban areas. Both the television show and the article discuss the urban area’s in reflection of education, political standpoints, and the social status held in the communities. These two media sources are comparable in themselves because of their interconnectability to the real world situations they are exploring more of and hold the same stance on the quality of the urban poor.

Citizens live below the standards of economic and human development. I still remember walking and playing on unpaved streets and attending an educational establishment with no window, door, or even enough desks. Living in a small town with only one road to enter, which runs along the banks of a cliff. I was a small town girl, who grew up around devastating conditions.The vivid images feel like a movie screen divided into short scenes of poverty, violence, and lack of education that affects the population as a whole. There in Guatemala I thought about my present and my future as something inextricably tied to a rotten fate and decadent survival without opportunities for educational excellence. When I was 3 years my parents left and I was raised by my grandfathers and other family members. Even though water and food was always on our table the extreme levels of poverty were seen outside my house. Poverty rather than a situation became a way of life that arises as a result of the difficult access to resources to meet the basic needs of the population, such as food, housing, education, healthcare, and drinking

Sociology is the study of humans and their social behavior since everyone is different in characteristics, the way they think, express themselves to others and the things we do. Sociologist are able to study a certain group of society and analyze their behavior because they want to see how our environment influences our way of thinking and inspiration. New York City is a place which is heavily populated by diverse cultures, religions, nationalities, race, and different morals. New York City is a place which is always busy and has 24 hours shops open for tourist, students and workers. Is a diverse city but is still relatively small. Everyone in New York are busy with their life such as work, school, raising a family, going to church, or shopping.

     The City of God is based on actual events that occurred in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960’s and 1970’s. The movie is about the rise and fall of a fearsome sociopath gang leader Li’l Ze, who reigned as king of the drug lords during the 70’s. The first part of the movie illustrates some of the forces that mold Li’l Ze into the man he becomes, while the second half shows his ruthless leap to power, followed by the war he wages against opposing gang leaders Carrot and Knockout Ned. The film is narrated by Rocket, a photographer who exists on the outskirts of Li’l Ze’s circle of dominance and control. In the film the city is filled with ruthless acts of delinquency and is basically in

City of God is a depicts the reality of the narrator’s life growing up in the slums on the outskirts of Rio. What was meant to be a small film project became a success in many ways. Although it quickly became an international sensation winning numerous awards the filmmakers were also successful with their use of various components of cinematography. One critic said that “City of God is a wildly entertaining film. The sheer energy of the movie is never less than compelling. Meirelles pulls out every filmmaking trick in the book, utilizing freeze-frames, montage, flashback, quick-cutting, and even strobe lights” (Millikan 1). I will analyze various scenes from the film and explain how each successfully applied film techniques. “The

All over the world, there are various kinds of socio-economic classes, races, and ethnicities, all with a different style of living. One important sociological idea is that a person’s quality of life is determined by their rank in a social hierarchy. This includes education, access to jobs, income, and other factors that all determine where and how they will live. In all parts of the world, urban planning is significant for a society to prosper. However, in underdeveloped parts of the world, this aspect is a struggling factor. The movie, Children of Heaven, directed by Majid Majidi, is a perfect example of a lower-class society struggling in the city of Tehran, Iran. It is centered around a family of five trying to make a living with the little income that they have. Not only does Children of Heaven show the hardships of a poor family, but it also displays the inequality between different classes, and the ways that the community can be affected by Urban Planning, both today and for years to come.

City of God is a film about life in a Brazilian slum spanning the decades of the 1960’s through the early 1980’s. The film is a narrative style with many flashbacks showing the main characters as they grow up in the crime infested favela (slum) known as City of God. The opening scene is a montage of a knife being sharpened on a stone, followed by a black screen. This is repeated five times in quick succession. This is interspersed with shots of the guitar playing, a samba rhythm and shots of a nervous looking chicken watching his friends having their neck sliced. The chicken escapes and is chased by a group (which we later learn are gang members) through the streets. In the process, they brutalize people on the street and finally end up in a stand off with a group of police. Stuck between the gang and the police is a young man, named Rocket, who seems to fear the gang. The camera whirls back and forth showing the gang, the chicken and the police, all from the point of view of Rocket. The scene then flashbacks to the early 1960’s when the favela was brand new. A group of kids are playing soccer. Rocket is one of the kids playing. The favela is new, but already, there is crime, and petty thievery going on. Rocket begins the narrative of how he and his friends grow up in the favela over a period of twenty plus years. By the 1980’s the favela is a war zone and most of the protagonists are either dead or engaged in a bloody war over drug turf. The story focuses on the escalating