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MOVIE LABS Created at the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology |
THERE ARE 27 ITEMS ON THE MOVIE LAB WORKSHEET; THEY COME FROM THE TERMS LISTED BELOW AS DISCUSSED IN LECTURES AND READINGS.
1. KNOW EACH OF THE FIVE FUTURES FOR THE USA as discussed in class: GENTEEL POVERTY, CORPORATIVISM [JAPAN], GARRISON STATE/SOYLANT GREEN, SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
2. KNOW INTO WHICH MARXIAN CLASS CATEGORIES THE CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE WOULD BE PLACED: PETITE BOURGEOISIE, BOURGEOISIE, LUMPENPROLETARIAT, PROLETARIAT, SURPLUS POPULATION [INDUSTRIAL RESERVE ARMY]
AND KNOW THE CLASS CATEGORIES USED BY NON-MARXIST SOCIOLOGISTS--AND BASED UPON LIFE STYLE RATHER THAN RELATIONSHIP TO THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION: UNDERCLASS, LOWER CLASS, MIDDLE CLASS, UPPER CLASS
3.THINK ABOUT WHICH FORMS OF INEQUALITY ARE BOTH REPRODUCED AND CRITICIZED BY THE MOVIE:
1. GENDER INEQUALITY 3. RACE AND GENDER INEQUALITY
2. CLASS INEQUALITY 4. RACE, CLASS & GENDER
4. BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF CRIME IN THE MOVIE AS DISCUSSED IN CLASS:
1. STREET CRIME 3. ORGANIZED CRIME
2. WHITE COLLAR CRIME 4. POLITICAL CRIME 5. CORPORATE CRIME
5. FORMS OF AUTHORITY AS WEBER DEFINES THEM: TRADITIONAL, LEGAL RATIONAL AUTHORITY, CHARISMATIC
6. OTHER CONCEPTS TO BE FOUND IN THE MOVIE: RATIONALIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZATION, DIFFERENTIATION, COMMODIFICATION, LEGITIMATION, TECHNOFASCISM,
7. THINK ABOUT WHICH MOBILITY CHANNELS ARE AVAILABLE TO CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE:
1. EDUCATION 3. SPORTS
2. ORGANIZED RELIGION 4. ORGANIZED CRIME
8. WHICH FORMS OF MOBILITY DID WE SEE IN THE MOVIE:
1. HORIZONTAL MOBILITY 3. VERTICAL MOBILITY
2. STRUCTURAL MOBILITY 4. INTERGENERATIONAL
9. INTO WHICH SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY [O'CONNOR] WERE THE JOBS AND BUSINESS OF NEW JACK CITY LOCATED:
STATE SECTOR, COMPETITIVE SECTOR OR THE MONOPOLY SECTOR
INTO WHICH SECTORS OF THE DUAL ECONOMY WOULD THOSE JOBS BE PLACED:
CORE OR PERIPHERY?
10.BE ABLE TO SPOT WHICH FORMS OF SOLIDARITY ARE DEPICTED IN THE MOVIE:
MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY OR ORGANIC SOLIDARITY
11. WHICH FORMS OF RATIONALITY DID WE SEE IN THE WORKPLACE:
INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY, SUBSTANTIVE RATIONALITY.
12. WHEN WAS THE 'CRIME' DEPICTED IN THE MOVIE THEORETICALLY INFORMED REBELLION; WHEN WAS IT RESISTANCE, PRETHEORETICAL REBELLION AND RESISTANCE
13. WHICH THEORIES OF POVERTY WERE THE MOST USEFUL TO UNDERSTAND THE MOVIE:
**CULTURE OF POVERTY THEORY SAYS THAT POVERTY REPEATS ITSELF DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS
**DIFFERENCES IN INDIVIDUAL TALENT OR EFFORT EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RICH AND POOR
**RACIAL INEQUALITY TENDS TO HAMPER MINORITIES FROM UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY
**STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY PRODUCES POVERTY: SOME REBEL; SOME WITHDRAW INTO DRUGS
14. FORMS OF POWER SEEN IN THE MOVIE:
1. MORAL POWER: FROM SHARED AND CHERISHED VALUES
2. LEGAL-RATIONAL POWER: FROM THE POSITION ONE HAS IN A BUREAUCRACY
3. SOCIAL POWER: FROM SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PRIMARY GROUPS
4. PHYSICAL POWER: FROM FISTS, GUNS, BOOTS OR KNIVES..
15. WHICH THEORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME IS CENTRAL TO THE MOVIE:
1. SUCCESSION THEORY 3. DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION
2. CONTROL THEORY 4. LABELING THEORY
16. WHICH FORM OF FEMINISM DID WE SEE EMBODIED BY THE CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTER:
1. SOCIALIST FEMINISM: OPPOSITION TO RACE, CLASS AND GENDER INEQUALITY
2. TRADITIONAL FEMININITY: WIFE, MOTHER, HOME-MAKER
3. RADICAL FEMINISM: ESTABLISH FEMALE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS; EXCLUDE MALES
4. LIBERAL FEMINISM: WORK FOR THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES TO DOMINATE AS MALES