House We Live In Sociology

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

Third, it challenges people to examine White women’s role in privilege, race, and complacency in America. It was a heavy scene that challenged stereotypes and ideologies.

Race does not play a large role in this movie, which tells you a lot about the community the movie is set in. None of the characters in the movie are people of color. This tells the audience that the movie is dealing with an all-white, poor, rural community. This allows the audience to fill in information regarding this community based on what is already known about such communities.

In doing so they created many different ways of systematic oppression for minorities. One way was through the Federal Housing Agency (FHA). Through “confidential” city surveys they put most of their loan money toward white communities and deliberately away from communities of color. When equity was being built throughout the years in these white communities because of the loans this created a gap of equality in between whites and minorities. Whites gained more money because of this, which helped them get way ahead, but real estate wasn’t their only outlet of doing

The movie’s main focus is racism in the southern United States. It was at times hard to hear the KKK members in the movie describe African Americans in such vile words. The movie accurately portrays racism in the south; a good portion of whites really believed that blacks were the scum of the earth. Blacks were separated from the population, and routinely harassed, beaten, and sometimes killed because of their race.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, whites established slavery for power and wealth (Aworawo 2001). Through their establishment, whites dehumanized people of color and made them believe that Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Amid the Slave Trade, their belief system spread from Europe to Africa and then to the Americas. In modern times, in the United States, this belief system continues to be prevalent but has evolved into new forms of racial oppression. Today, in society, the idea is represented in several ways, including through micro-aggressive statements, whites stealing intellectual property from Black people, gentrification, police brutality, etc. Minorities have also fallen prey to this repressive mentality. Because of the aftermath and repercussions of slavery, some minorities prefer to be white, and others mistreat their people because they want them to be in worse positions than themselves. The aftermath of slavery has caused both invisible and visible divisions within our society that will take many more years to

In the late ninetieth and early twentieth century; also known as the Gilded Age, there was a rapid growth in the Unite States’ economy and a large increase in population due to the significant changes made in the industrial industry of the country. The reasoning behind the rapid influx of European citizens migrating to United States was because payment wages in America were dramatically higher than those in Europe and the availability of jobs were also significantly higher as well. All the new immigrants coming in from Europe, the Native Americans, and the African Americans trying to adapt into the labor force of the country were referred to as the “non-white” category. The changes made in society forced these groups of individuals to assimilate into industrial labor process of America and by adapting to the way of society. Which caused all the minority groups to take away or change their own certain cultural value and ways of life . Being forced to adapt to new ways in society is how a country grows and proposers, by living in the country you sometimes have to make certain changes you do not want to make in order to survive in the country. The changes were not made in order to target and attack certain minority groups, but rather to help the United States economy and bring more job opportunities for all the people. Racism and segregation played a big role in the adapting process in the United States economy because the job opportunities provided many new benefits

The readings for this week consisted of Sociology’s Missing Other and Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project by Angela Frederick and Dara Shifer, and Angela Frederick respectively. Sociology’s Missing Other examines the ways in which sociologists ignore disability’s role as a social category, as well as the ways in which disability is socially constructed and reinforced (Frederick & Shifer 2016). This reading serves to provide some background for Risky Mothers, which critiques interactions between disabled mothers and society. Both readings raise important questions of biocitizenship and intersectionality.

For instance, in a scenario when an injustice occurs when a white is favored against a nonwhite who is in a similar situation as the white person (same social class, same education or same job skills). Neoliberalism has partly contributed to racial inequality in the US. The concept that the free market is the best way to organize a society greatly favors the white (Pludo, 2015). However, the social formation needs not to be considered racist.

When we start to group people together and segregate them it will create in unfair advantage to white people. A lot of gated communities in today’s society are mostly occupied by white people who have a lot of money. For a group of people to be rich another has to be poor. So, in African American communities they typically don’t have as much money because they don’t receive the same opportunities white people do. Also, this creates our school system to either be very good or very bad based on where you live.

Segregation of the labor force not only helped the wealthy whites maintain power and money, but it also helped lower income to middle-class white Americans. This is because segregation “prevented blacks from competing with them for better- paying jobs.” Due to the segregation of some jobs, lower class whites were often guaranteed employment because the demand for white workers was high. This high demand was caused by a number of employers searching for white employees, and would not settle for black

The movie itself covers so many pivotal and defining moments in history and provides an intimate observation with a twist of humor and charm that is not often depicted in movies such as these. The movie itself gives an honest insight into situations of the time that are not often addressed. One moment early on in the movie depicts the strong relationship between a single mother and her child in the 1950s, as a rule of thumb television

This shows us their side of this time. We can see and relate to how hard an average day of their live is. They wake up really early get their kids ready for the day, then they catch the bus to work, wake up and get the children of the white people ready for the day. Then they clean, do all the chores for them and just about anything else they tell them to do. Then after putting the white children to sleep they finally go home and put their own children to sleep. After they put their own children to sleep they clean and get their own house in order. They worked so hard and through this movie we go to see it in a different

Steven Spielberg directed the film and the main motivation of the author was showing that every single person, not depending on the color of skin has the right to be free. In other words each person is born free and nobody can take this freedom away from him. According to

One night, Two Proms. In the town of Charleston, Mississippi they lived in the past of what we tried to leave behind. The high schools in Charleston had 2 segregated Proms, so one for only whites and the other for whites or african americans, but only african americans showed up. After some arranging, the high school was able to finally have an integrated senior prom in 2008. This documentary affected me in both a positive and negative way. During the documentary, I was in disbelief that things like this still are happening around the world, let alone the United States. My faith in how good and the equality humanity decreased immensely after watching this movie. I was aware the there were still some racists on the planet but I always assumed