Crash Intertwined In The Conflict Perspective
The movie Crash directed by Paul Haggis, is full of sociological concepts. It exploits issues dealing with race, social class, and gender. Crash is a very convoluted movie. The movie is about many different races and events intertwined at some point in a 24 hour period. The movie reveals personalities and perceptions you do not often see expressed in Hollywood movies. Crash follows eight characters that all live in Los Angeles, whose stories are all intertwined with one another and ultimately changes the rest of their lives. The characters in the movie come from all different types of back grounds, from a white District Attorney to a Persian store owner. Within 24 hours, the paths of these groups of people cross in separate incidences with incredibly high tension that challenge many of the issues dealing with race, social economic class and gender.
One of the major theoretical perspectives that is well associated with the movie Crash is the conflict perspective. According to the text, Newman states “the conflict perspective addresses the deficiencies of structural-functionalism by viewing the structure of society as a source of inequality which always benefits some groups at the expense of other groups”. (Newman, 2006 47) In our society and other societies the conflict perspective shows the various sources of inequality that exist today. “Culture is the motor that holds these blocks together”. The Macro Level perspective of the conflict perspective is when society is characterized by the inequalities and conflicts that generate change. Social order arises from dominance. In this movie they key figures of Karl Marx are stated in its class in equality, and W.E.B Dubois with the racial inequality. Conflict sociologists see society as a quarrel and struggle. (Levonyan-Radloff Fall 2008)
Racism, the structures of social class and the hierarchy of gender play key roles in this movie. Crash shows all of these inequalities to a very high extent, very honestly and...
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