DOES TRAINSPOTTING GLORIFY HEROIN AND DRUG TAKING? Danny Boyle’s outstanding adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s stunning novel “Trainspotting” has managed to stir some trouble since its release in 1996. Most reviews call it shocking but no matter how shocking it still ranks as one of the best Scottish movies. The film caused debates about drug use‚ specifically heroin‚ as it neither condones the use of heroin nor shuns those who have become addicted to the drug. There are many valid arguments stating
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Tierra Hodge Dr. Ngeo Boon Lin Intro to Sociology October 1‚ 2014 Sociological Imagination What is sociological imagination? According to C. Wright Mills sociological imagination is the ability to see how individual experiences are connected to the larger society. Sociological perspective enables one to grasp connection to history and biography. History is the background and biography is the individual’s specific experiences. C.Wright Mills came up with the idea that in order for one to understand
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have on our society? PART II 1. Using the movies from Moodle that we have seen so far (Gangs of NY‚ Pleasantville‚ Walkout‚ Harlan County War‚ Network)‚ summarize the historical period shown in each film and discuss how that particular social context is connected to the sociological theory that arose during that time. aaaaaasdjbfjsfljdgljdgv‚mdvlj‚ PART 1 1. How did Jane Addams and her colleagues at Hull House analyze the
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which embodies the spirit of the crime‚ thriller and buddy movie as well. As the film progresses the pair become closer‚ revealing more to each other about their past. The film ends with Thelma and Louise committing suicide together as an act of defiance. I believe that ’Thelma and Louise’ is a feminist film and within the confines of this essay I aim to explore and explain that view. One of the elements that make the film feminist is the portrayal of males. Within ’Thelma and Louise’ there are only
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Trainspotting "Over the years‚ heroin and addiction have provided the subject matter for more than a few noteworthy films." The cult film Trainspotting‚ based on Irvine Welsh’s book of the same title‚ offers an attractive case study as it represents a wide view of British youth culture by considering a large number of issues such as the critiques of consumerism‚ Thatcherism‚ class stratification and gender identities. The film portrays the lifestyle of a group of young drug addicts which places
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"Bowling for Columbine" Why anyone would go into a school with tons of loaded guns and shot up their teachers and peers is almost beyond grasp. But it happened. In the film‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ director Michael Moore takes an in depth look at what could have possibly made these ’troubled-youth’ do such a thing. He looks are more than just the tragedy at Columbine High School‚ but also at the NRA’s effects on people‚ the 2nd amendment‚ more school shootings and the United States compared to other
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what the sociological perspective is and how it affects groups of people because it shows the difference between the views of the “Elite upper class” and the “middle working class. Some of the differences of their views were evident when Chomsky showed her class “Portrait of Teresa”. Little students‚ the upper class pupils‚ couldn’t believe the conditions of the city and that people were forced to work‚ however the Massachusetts students‚ the middle class pupils‚ didn’t share the same view because
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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY Compare and contrast the views of three appropriate sociological perspectives to an area of social life of your choosing. Why do we act the way we do? Does the mass media really affect the way a people in a society behave? Sociologists focus on the environment and the social aspects of human behaviour in order to answer questions like these when studying a particular society. A society is defined as a large social group that shares the same geographical territory
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Exercise 1 The “Seven Up Series” is a series of documentary films about the lives of fourteen British children. The participants were chosen in an attempt to represent different social classes in Britain in the 1960`s‚ the children were asked to answer different questions about society‚ other children and their lives. In one of the episodes children talk about colored people. Almost all of them expressed their opinions about colored people intolerantly‚ which made me feel uncomfortable and confused
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Care – Introduction to Sociology Developing a Sociological Outlook: Learning to think sociologically – looking‚ in other words at the broader view – means cultivating the imagination. A sociologist is someone who is able to break free from the immediacy of personal circumstances and put things in a wider context. Sociological work depends on what Mills (1970 cited by Giddens 1997) famously called the ‘sociological imagination’. The sociological imagination requires us‚ above all‚ to “think ourselves
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