Due: Thursday, October 18th
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Question: Chapter 4 discusses the major components of social structure, which include; culture, social class, social status, roles and groups. While it is important to identify each of these components, it is critical to understand how a person’s social location in the social structure underlie his or her perceptions, attitudes, beliefs and actions. Please use a character in a movie, television show, book or other appropriate medium as an example to illustrate the importance of social location.
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In my favorite television show, Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith Grey is the main character. Last season she was an intern who working with other interns in the same subculture. Her role was to learn from her superiors and experiences. This season she has graduated to become a resident physician. She has earned this achieved status by her accomplishments in college and medical school. She wears scrubs and a stethoscope around her neck as a status symbol to represent her position. Dr. Grey’s social location with her peers in the medical profession is low in the hierarchy. However, because she is a doctor now, she is in a position that she heals members of society. Her knowledge of medicine causes the perceptions of her patients to place her in a high social location. Society views her as someone that carries a great deal of prestige.
The most interessting book that i have read was "The Path". This book was all about three children from a desserted homes. Their parents were drug addicts and went their separate ways leaving this children to wander from one foster home to another.These children were from a diffrent homes and later emerged into each other during their middle school year. What am trying to say is that they went through life struggles and later became somebody in life.Although, at some point in these childrens' life, they tend to practice a little bit of their parents moralities and social class which also helped to shape them into who they are today.But after going through all this negativities, they made it to college and aquire that knowledge which placed them into the subcultural world of medical doctors and dentist. They are now viewed as one of the upper class people. So the way people's perceptions toward them have changed and will no longer be viewed as low status class.
One of my favorite movies is V for Vendetta, In this movie there is a man who starts out as somewhat a mystery, Dressing in a long trench coat and a Guy Fawkes mask to keep his identity a secret. some would classify him in the subculture of thieves and sneaks but others might see him as a very sophisticated person with high taste and a high social location. More is Identified throughout the movie however the position of the mystery man V is still up to the viewer to decide. I believer their are many people like this in all kinds of cultures and groups, some that don't belong but act the part anyway. However in the movie V is portrayed as a terrorist against a dictatorship of a government. Now being brought up in a capitalist society is their such thing as a terrorist to a dictatorship? This is where the character blends into many different groups and guises as he tries to end or at least put a dent into what his culture has become. To some a terrorist, to some a hero .
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