Sociological Change In Iron Jawed Angels

Sociological change in the United States often results in a five stage process involving: discussion, heated debates, confrontation, violence, and resolution. One of the features of the United States is that citizens have the right to assemble. The women’s suffrage movement of the 1910’s in the United States is a classic example of how sociological change occurs. Portrayed in Iron Jawed Angels, the Suffragette Movement was a complex movement within the United States that underwent the five necessary stages needed for sociological change to occur. At the beginning of Iron Jawed Angels, a British suffragette Alice Paul along with Lucy Paul were talking with Carrie Chapman Catt in order to receive a permit to hold a parade to promote the suffragette
The doctor said that she was sane while the other politicians thought she was insane for going on a hunger strike to support her cause. This caused a lot of tension and forced them to change their strategy. The most prominent example of confrontation in the film was when various men and non-supporters were harassing Alice and the other women who were picketing the white house in several scenes throughout the film. Another example of confrontation is the scene involving Emily Leighton and her husband who was a senator. When Emily developed enough courage to confront her husband, she finally told her husband that he treated her like “chattel”. Amid all of the confrontation and heated debates presented in the film, there were definitely examples of violence. In the parade previously mentioned, some men through glass bottles and attacked women who were marching in the parade. Over 100 women had to go to the hospital and Lucy Burns herself had a black eye. Another form of violence included the forced feeding that Alice had to go through. Forced feeding and attacks demonstrated violent
One of the major goals was to stop people from discriminating against African American voters. At the same time, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 guaranteed that society was desegregated.
The Issue Today: Illegal Immigrants in the United States In the United States today, there is an issue about immigration. The president, Donald Trump, has made several statements on the fact that Mexican immigrants are not welcome in this country and that a wall is going to be built. There have been numerous people on the media who have either agreed or disagreed about the president’s statement regarding the border wall. This is isomorphic to the first step of sociological change in the United States. The next step is also present in today’s world regarding the border wall limiting Mexican immigration. There have been many political leaders from Mexico who have been in heated debates with the United States President and government on this issue. The former Mexican president Vicente Fox is a good example of one of the politicians participating in heated debates. He stated that Mexico would “never pay for that [explicative] wall”. He has continued to conduct heated debates with the President along with other politicians (Bulman,