Slumdogs Documentary Analysis

This movie is a great example of social groups, leadership, culture, norms, society, nature and nurture, and social lives. This movie represents how the American culture chooses our social class in society. Some sociologists believed that lifestyle choices are an important influence on our social class position (Giddens, 209). Our class position is the way we dress, where we eat, where we sleep, and how we relax (Giddens,

In the film Thug Life in D.C was about the criminal justice system, neighbor that black inhabitants that give them no options in life, hope and no reason to care about what happening to them. The documentary follows a young man name Aundrey Burno who was awaits trial for attempted murder of a police officer and the murder of a teenager. Who talk about the southeast neighborhood he is from where he watching individuals get kill, sell drugs and rob. When his brother Kevin visit he would try to tell him to be better than me, don’t make the mistake that I have mad and “don’t die for no street because the street ain’t going to die for you.” However, his brother didn’t care for the reason that he started talking about his muscles and rapping about

After viewing the documentary Paper Tigers, please answer the following questions. When possible, use scenes/examples from the documentary to support your answer.

Dogtown and Z-Boys is a documentary that depicts the wild life of a skate and surf team, including twelve individuals and the community in which they lived. This documentary shows how the surf and skate “culture” was different and unique in the 1960s in California and changed over time. The individuals that were a part of this team and community were known as the dropouts and lowlifes, but truly embraced the “locals only” way of life. They all started off surfing and transitioned to skating, which became extremely popular but was a short lived and crashed in 1965. The people who kept skating were doing it because they loved doing it. Different styles and locations for skating became available throughout time, and the dogtown boys were always

The documentary titled 13TH, is in reference to the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and how it had the ability to end slavery for African Americans, however, this end of slavery led to a mass incarceration of individuals, predominately people who are African American. DuVernay (2016) made it a point to make it known to the public the shocking reality that 1 in 3 African-American males are expected to go to prison in their lifetime while it is expected that only 1 in 17 white men will go to prison in their lifetime. This targeting of African Americans, mostly males, is the overarching plot of the film which is filled with numerous instances in history that prove they are targeted to go into the prison system. 13th is compiled

Another leadership story type that Simmons discusses is the “Values-in-Action” story, which brings values to life by respectfully “instilling [them] in a way that keeps people thinking for themselves” (20). Leslie asks the schoolchildren to imagine what it must have been like to be raised in an Indian residential school, stating that the children are “the next generation who will walk forward with values and ideals that will change our world and make it a better place” (Project Heart). The adults who participated in the ceremony (in addition to those who view it through film) must also face the same question, as well as face their individual and collective values as demonstrated by their response to her poignant inquiry. That is to say, if adults see children acting according to a certain ethical standard, the adults are also likely to choose to follow with their own ethical actions.

In 2011, American filmmaker, Marisa Miller Wolfson, made a 76-minute documentary titled, ‘Vegucated.’ Wolfson, a practicing vegan, cites her research on foods and especially animal-based foods as her rationale for opting to go vegan. Notably, upon going vegan, she became healthier, lost weight, and even felt happier because she was no longer contributing to the inhuman treatment of animals. In her quest to become a vegan, Wolfson made the film after moving to New York City. Her concurrent idea in the film is the effects of animal diets versus the effects of vegan diets. Evidently, through its participants, the film illustrates that avoidance of animal products results to weight loss and

I can say wholeheartedly that The House I Live In was a very interesting and thought provoking documentary. It did a good job displaying the racial injustices and inequalities in our society. It taught very important facts about the history of drugs in our society. Some of the most interesting included the one hundred to one ratio between crack and crack cocaine. Thus meaning that a five year sentence for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine is tantamount to a five year sentence for possessing 500 grams of cocaine. Another interesting fact was the coming of age racial discrimination by stereotyping a specific culture- such as Asians with opium and Mexicans with marijuana. The reason that it began as such was because the majority did not want minority success and wanted to further their own success. Thus making a drug known to be used by a specific minority illegal allows for majority success while hindering that of the minority. The majority illegalized opium thus decreasing success of Asians. The documentary has

At the end of WW2, many films ended up found in a hidden concrete vault located in a forest. The film marked "Ghetto" was one of the many films of Hitler's propaganda machine found in this archive. Out of all the films found only one film showed the Jewish life in the Ghettos. This film turned into the documentary called A Film Unfinished. The footage from the film corresponds with the class lectures about the ghettos in regards to conditions, underground secretes, and the Judenrat.

I attended the “Hardcoar about Social Justice Documentary Series” about minimalism on November 14, 2017 in the HCC Digital Auditorium. The event involved a documentary movie about minimalism followed up by a small panel of people who live a minimalist life style who answered questions. The movie presented an alternative to our modern consumer culture and the idea that money and material goods are the source of our happiness. The movie mainly used a variety of anecdotal stories from minimalists who changed their life styles, as well as scientists and economists who explained the benefit of minimalism. The panel didn’t last long, and just answered two questions. They talked a bit about how living with zero waste can tie in with minimalism.

Macrosociology is an approach to sociology which emphasizes the analysis of social systems and populations on a large scale, at the level of social structure, and often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction. Microsociology, by contrast, focuses on the individual social agency. Macrosociology also concerns individuals, families, and other constituent aspects of a society, but always does so in relation to larger social system of which they are a part. Macrosociology can also be the analysis of large collectivities. Human populations are considered a society to the degree that is politically autonomous and its members to engage in a broad range of cooperative activities. For example, this definition would apply to the population of Germany being deemed a society, but German-speaking people as a whole scattered about different countries would not be considered a society. Macrosociology deals with broad societal trends that can later be applied to the smaller features of a society. To differentiate, macrosociology deals with issues such as war, distress of Third World nations, poverty, and environmental deprivation, whereas microsociology analyses issues such as the role of women, the nature of the family, and immigration of people. Within the mega city of Mumbai, India is the slum city of Dharavi inhabited by 1,000 people living in extreme poverty. There is much filth, little access to water and unreliable

In Criminology 101, we watched a documentary called The House I live in. It came out to the public on October 5th, 2012. It was directed, written, and starred Eugene Jarecki. Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of dramatic and documentary subjects. On his biography, it states that “. He has appeared on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', 'Charlie Rose', 'The Colbert Report', 'FOX News', CNN, and many other outlets, while also being featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, among others” ("Biography." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

The video The Real Slumdogs show us many different aspects of the culture residing in Dharavi. There are several different types of statuses that people can achieve from a sociological stand point, but the one I am referring to in the video is achieved statuses. An achieved status is a position that is earned, accomplished, or involves at least some effort or activity on the individual’s part. Take the story of Babu, the hard working trash picker for instance. This trash picker has worked most of his life as a trash picker, and through this dedication he has finally become his own boss. Although he is still picking trash, he oversees other workers and helps them learn the trade. If he had not worked tirelessly and put in this effort to get

One of the major ICC themes in the movie is the conflict between individualism and collectivism. Although not explicitly expressed, it has a strong impact on the whole course of the movie. The 4 immigrant Chinese mothers, having spent their childhood in Mainland China, embodied a strong collectivistic value. This is a dominant value in Asian culture, especially that of China. In such society, the priority of a group far exceeds that of an individual,

Doing all three of these will help them to develop good core values. Another important suggestion mentioned in the article was that children learn best by doing so to give them ways to practice values that they learn. Have them come up with suggestions on how to reduce fights in school or how to work cooperatively in a group. Also, another important suggestion is that the staff that is teaching the character education program must remember to show the same core values that they are teaching the children to adhere to.