The Movie Durin Sociology

“ Some of these early productions have racial themes which reorganize the world in such a way that black heritage is rewarded over white paternity; they are schematic renunciations of the prevailing order of things in white American society where, historically, the discovery of black blood meant sudden reversal of fortune, social exclusion, or banishment.” (Gaines, P.3) Within the movie the amount of mistruths about African Americans was sad. Within the movie you notice that the blacks were always or seem to be yelling, acting uncivilized and doing

Aibileen, a housemaid, was brought up at this time. Living in Mississippi in the 1960s couldn't be much worse for Aibileen, she lived in the the outskirts of jackson with all of the black community in low quality housing, she lost her son to wreckless white people that didn’t give a damn and she got paid just under $1 an hour to work for the white privileged. Growing up Aibileen knew she would be a maid. This is proven through dialog when she says “my Mama was was a maid, and my Gran’mama was a house slave. The mournful tone she speaks with displays her desire to be more than a black dot on a white wall, meaning she did not want to be another black maid living among her supposed white superiors.

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

The film A Better Life (2011) includes many sociology terms which allow a better comprehension of the culture and conflicts in the film. The following terms from the text Mastering Sociology (2014) of Chapter 3 give insight about the movie. The first term which acknowledges the basis of the entire movie is culture. The use of culture allows the understanding of groups with traits such as language, beliefs, norms, and behaviors which are passed on through generations to keep the culture alive. In this film, it is noticeable that the Mexican/Hispanic culture is being reflected throughout the movie as the characters speak Spanish, a language spoken in Hispanic cultures.

This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie

She works for Elizabeth, an affluent white woman who is pregnant with her second child, even as she neglects her first child. Aibileen is the liaison between Skeeter, Elizabeth’s best friend, and the other maids.

The movie is based in 1971 in Alexandria, Virginia at T.C Williams High School, which was a school for whites, but since the turn of equality for African Americans and women,

Many individuals argue that Good Will Hunting is one of the most sociologically diverse movies out there. The amount of references that can be drawn back to concepts studied in sociology is incredible. Good Will hunting is about a 20-year-old, rambunctious male, Will, that tends to stick himself in positions that are not suitable for him. Wills tendency to get himself into trouble attributes to him ending up living on the south side of Boston as a janitor at MIT. His life suddenly takes a positive turn when will reveals his gift for others to see. A math professor posts a mathematical equation on a board outside of his room that had previously been unsolvable by a student in his class. That following day while will was cleaning the hallway

Discrimination has shown up tremendously in this movie, but one of the few incidents that stood out the most to me was when the women decided to give separate bathrooms to the maids because they carried too many “diseases” that would harm others if anyone made contact with. This was very ridiculous because the bathrooms were placed outside and some were even miles away from the house, so if it was a storm the maids would have to

The three girls working together begins to create the solution to the main conflict. The main conflict in this case is blacks are being treated in a way that is not fair. They are being treated as if they are disease carrying things. Skeeter wants to change that perspective on people. That’s why she wants to write a book on how black maids are treated in Mississippi. “I turn and hear Pascagoula’s knock on my door. That’s when the idea hit me. No. I couldn’t. That would be . . . crossing the line.” - (Page 104) This was foreshadowing what Skeeter would do next. It let the reader know what was going to happen. Minny and Aibileen are there to help Skeeter with her book. They are the interviews. At first, the book starts out with Aibileen doing a normal day of work. She notices the Skeeter isn’t like all the other ladies. She’s more polite. When Skeeter gets a job at the local newspaper she starts to go to Aibileen for help with the Miss Myrna articles. She is even willing to pay her to help her. “ ‘For your help,’ I say quietly, ‘ I’ve put away five dollars for every article. It’s up to thirty-five dollars now.’ ” (Page 126) This shows that Skeeter is quite

The film “The Help” (2011), is a story based on the daily lives of prominent white women and the relationships with their African-American housemaids in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s Civil Rights movement in America. A well-to-do white woman and central character in this film, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, aspires to be a journalist and decides to write and publish an exposé of the stories of the housemaids in Jackson to achieve this goal, however, only two maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are willing to discuss their experiences with her. The other maid’s in Jackson resist telling Skeeter their stories, fearing the punishments they would endure if the authorities were to find out. In spite of this, after the malicious arrest of one of their befriended maids, all of the maids begin to share their experiences, which consist of racial hostility and being treated as intrinsically subservient to white people. The story Skeeter publishes entitled The Help, creates a disturbance among the white families in Jackson, by exposing the racism the maids are faced with, forcing the white families to reflect upon how they have treated their maids. The storyline represented in The Help exhibits examples of the primordial approach to race and ethnicity, as well as numerous sociological concepts including segregation, internalized oppression, and white privilege, which will be exemplified in this paper in order to uncover the race relations evident within this film.

During this time social inequality was culturally acceptable in this movie. “Normative culture consist of the ways we establish, abide by, and enforce principles of conduct” (Witt 59). In their culture black maids worked for white families, that's how they earned a living. They cleaned their houses, cooked, raised their children, while abstaining by a set of guidelines/rules that they had to follow in order to work for them. A black maid was not allowed by any means to go to the bathroom inside the house, they had to take it to the restroom outside that was built specifically for them. Minny Jackson on the other hand disobeyed this rule to use the restroom inside the house in which caused her to get fired. Minny Jackson violated a norm. A norm is “the established standards of behavior maintained by a society-both big and small” (Witt 59). Another character that went against the norm was, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. Skeeter is a college graduate who tries to expose on the quandary of the black maids as they spoke on their own free will about working for white families in Jackson. In those days if a white person was to talk or visit a black person, it is looked down upon. Skeeter stood up for the black maids because she wanted there voices to be heard, since her maid, Constantine, quit do to the fact that her

As does every society, this society contains its own set of values and norms, yet these vary widely across the valids and invalids. Invalids are held to very low expectations are they are seen as the minority group for not being genetically superior as the dominant group. Taking

Despite his low IQ, Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, taking part in many of the most memorable events in his lifetime. Without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as his life goes by, Forrest never forgets about Jenny, the girl he loved since a

Although the maids were struggling and going through a difficult time in 1960’s, The Help portrays that their family members were too. Segregated society against the backdrop of the growing US civil rights movement in the 1960’s has an impacted. “Race also determines who has access to educational, occupational, and economic opportunity. Racial tensions are high as white community members employ violence and coercion to try to keep the Civil Rights Movement from sweeping into their Mississippi town” (Shmoop Editorial Team). The white community in the movie continue to keep the black women as their servants throughout their lives. As Skeeter the white lady, who writes a book about The Help and portrays through the book that the African American women go through. As the white women of Jackson, Mississippi read the book they began to act more violent to the black women. The book is away as the black women to make a statement about the civil rights they have.