Sociological Analysis Of Monsoon Wedding

In the movie Monsoon Wedding, there were many examples of Indian culture and how things were done there and the way that they differ from our culture. The sociological theory that best explains the way that society functions in this movie is the symbolic interaction theory. Symbolic interaction is shown by the example of how Ria is unmarried and wants to go to college which is against the norm of society, she is the symbol of the western type of life and shows how India is beginning to move towards that. Another example is how Aditi and Ria’s uncle was kissing his nieces and how everyone viewed it to be wrong because family is not supposed to do that, and how Aditi’s father functioned as the protector, father role of the family when he
He is the uncle of the kids which is why when he does things like kissing their Aliya and Ria he is viewed negatively. Just as the example in the book states, people see each other as symbols, which is how we know the difference between boyfriends and family members and since that symbol that he carries in relationship to the children in the movie is an “uncle” it is classified as wrong. Besides the symbol of uncle and niece there is also the problem that Aliya is clearly way too young to be participating in the activities that Tej Uncle was trying to get her to do. She doesn’t view it as wrong because she see him as the “uncle” symbol and implies that he will do things that an uncle should do, such as not do things that would harm her or things that are wrong. Aliya develops a false consciousness towards the actions done by Tej Uncle which is shown by how casually she mentioned that she had been kissed before. She didn’t realize that the things that her and her uncle were doing were wrong, but she did know that she didn’t like them. The false consciousness that an “uncle” would do nothing to harm her is what kept her from mentioning these actions because she most likely felt that these were normal occurrences and nothing out of the ordinary or wrong at all. Once the issue was out there her father came forward and was the symbol of a father and showed that by doing anything to protect his family, and since one family member felt uncomfortable with their uncle being there he told him to leave. That is an example of how the symbol that is given to a person was used in order to benefit the family as opposed to how Tej Uncle used his symbol within the family, because the Aliya and Ria probably would not have let a complete stranger kiss them, so Tej Uncle took advantage of the role he played. The hard part for