Sociological Analysis Of The Bachelor: The Bachelor

Objective – Explain basic sociological concepts of the family, marriage, and intimate relationships. (Pg. 365)

Chapter 3 of Essential of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach by James M. Henslin discusses the topic of socialization, which is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group—the knowledge, attitudes, skills, norms, values, and actions thought appropriate for them. Sociologists try to determine how much of a person’s characteristics comes from “nature” (heredity) and how much from “nurture” (social environment). Studying feral, isolated, and institutionalized children, such as The Skeels/Dye Experiment, have helped them understand how “society makes us human.” The theories and research of Charles Horton Cooley, George Herbert Mead, and Piaget to explain socialization into the self and mind. Cooley’s looking-glass self theory focuses on how we believe others perceive us.

In the film, Inside Out directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen it talks

The movie Crash is a drama film that shows you several life experiences of different people living in Los Angeles.  All the characters in the film are somehow inter-related to one another.  A police detective who mother is strung out on drugs and has a brother who likes to kill, two car thieves, a white district attorney, a racist cop, a black Hollywood director, a full Persian descent father, and a Hispanic locksmith are all the characters in the film.

M2 - Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups

The approach one takes to study a particular subject is called a perspective. There are many subjects to be studied and discussed in the field of Sociology. Perspectives name different ways in which different people choose to analyze a subject, and how they look at a society as a whole. The three different perspectives are the functionalist,

According to Prose we live in a reality where everything is chaotic and the main goal in life is to win by eliminating the competition. Prose first starts her article by describing the reality TV show Average Joe where ordinary people are filmed doing “dangerous, challenging, or embarrassing situations in return for the promise of money, romance, or fame (287).” The chaotic show is about a woman name Melana who is trying to find love but what she does not realize is all of her potential suitors are unattractive males according to Prose. Prose thinks that she realizes that the only reason this TV show is being aired is because of money and she is playing a fool with a pretty face. She then goes into talking about Survivor where the whole point of the

Some of the most popular television shows in today’s society are The Biggest Looser, Jersey Shore, and Big Brother. These programs and many others are classified as reality television. Reality television’s main purpose is to attempt to portray ordinary people in unscripted situations. Recently, however, many of these shows have achieved in creating the complete opposite, and have earned an immense amount of criticism as a result. Reality television programs are detrimental to society because they influence bad behavior among teenagers, do not produce authentic real life situations, and they humiliate many of the characters.

The Bachelorette, created in order to be politically correct in my opinion, is the same show in reverse—twenty-five young dashing men after one single, attractive and rich woman. Addressing these shows with an eye bent to cultural analysis, the messages and constructed social meanings depicted are decidedly derived from a capitalist society.

Watching television is one of usually pastimes for people, especially watching reality television. According to the Oxford dictionary reality television is a “television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative” (Oxford). Beauty and the Geek pairs together "Geeks" (socially inelegant nerd breeds) and "Beauties" (beautiful women handpicked for depicting bimbos), who then take on challenges. Each week one couple is forced to leave the house and the last remaining couple wins $250,000 in prizes. Along the way the geeks are renovated, and the beauties learn various things about geek culture. Beauty and the geek amplifies a negative stereotype of men and women enforced by pairing smart, nerdy men with women focused on looks.

A reality television show where cameras follow affluent women as they enjoy their lavish lifestyle in Orange County, California is depicted in Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County. The American reality television series focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women living extravagantly wealthy lives mostly due to their wealthy husbands. Over the past 5 years the success of the innovative reality TV show has allowed for an expansion of several installments of The Real Housewives franchise into various regions, including Beverly Hills and New York. Viewers have been riveted by the fictionalized version of such lavish lifestyle on television, however, The Real Housewives series has evolved as one of the most controversial reality television shows aired due to its depiction of women. The Real Housewives of Orange County have manipulated the audience to believe their fictionalized depiction of reality and with this have created a negative representation of women through their representational casting strategies.

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features "ordinary" people over professional actors. After a couple of shows I became interested in the reality television show Love & Hip Hop Atlanta around 2014. After watching one episode, I was addicted to the show like it was a drug. Ever since then I have not missed a show. I heard about this reality television show from a friend at school, but I just didn't think that I would want to watch a show about men in the music business and the women who surround them. The targeted audience for Love & Hip Hop Atlanta is females, especially African Americans, ranging from ages 18-49 years old. According

Today, there are several popular reality TV shows that portrays the relationship between men and women. One of these reality TV shows includes Cheaters, which was first aired in 2000 and continues to exploit rocky relationships on TV today. Popular reality TV shows gives a depiction of what some of the norms of society is as well as the unchanged roles of women and men.

The Event did not disappoint with my hypothesis that this was a heavily male dominated program. The content of this show illustrates the social hierarchy and roles that men play in society. Subsequently, the major life events change the direction and course of the actors and force them into new roles, norms and values with their characters.

Today’s audience grabs hold of reality TV now a day. Looking forward week to week to watch these unscripted real life situation shows. In a way it 's becoming increasingly hard to avoid not watching. Some viewers see the TV show and tend to be attention seekers, and reality TV allows them to fantasize about achieving status through instant fame. Too much reality TV may lead viewers to idealize real world situations, like romanticizing dating. Like when Truman saw the girl in the library who was an actress and a fan of the show. He wanted to take her out sometime later that week, but she said it couldn’t happen because she knows what’s going on, but she had true love for him and asked to go out with him right then on a little date to the beach. As they went to the beach she was going to spill the beans and tell him everything. Then a man of the show in a car drove there to stop her acting like her father to get her before she ruined the show. It’s like most reality TV love shows on today people who audition for a show and know it’s scripted, but end up actually having a real feeling for the person.