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Your Movie Assignment must follow the instructions given in class.

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Sociology 100: Movie Essay (100 points)Instructor: Bachir IdouiRETURNED TO YOU AT FINAL: 100 pointsTime Class Meets: _____COVER SHEETSection #_____________Name:  Title of Film Reviewed: Essay Instructions:Answer EACH question completely. Staple your answer sheets to this cover sheet in the upper left hand corner. Edit your work carefully. This assignment must be typewritten. Your essay must be NO MORE than Five pages typewritten, double-spaced. Write the question number (only) in the upper right hand corner of each answer sheet. (Be sure to answer all parts of each question.) If you submit a rough draft (s) and I make remarks and notes on those drafts, BE SURE to include the last rough draft I have seen with this paper. Staple it to the back of your final draft. If it is also your final draft, simply staple it to this cover sheet.  1. Describe thein your plot of the film—describe the story as it unfolds. Specifically, what is the conflict, which presents itself in the film? Is the major character in the film in conflict with others or with him/ herself or both? (20 points—1 page)2.   From Chapter 3, define (inyour own words) the terms subculture and counterculture. Identify the primary subculture or counterculture presented in your movie, and describe how it can be distinguished from the dominant culture. What behaviors take place among group members that distinguish them from members of the dominant culture? (Use scenes from the movie to support your claim.) If it is a subculture, what scenes from the movie tell you that it is not a counterculture? If it is a counterculture, what scenes from the movie tell you that it is not a subculture? (20 points—1  page)3.   Chapter 3 defines norms (folkways, mores, and taboos). In your own words, thoroughly and creatively define these terms. Further, describe the folkways, mores, and taboos that members of this subculture or counterculture share. Be sure to distinguish between folkways, mores, and taboos in your description. Use elements from the plot and scenes from your movie to provide examples for all three (folkways, mores, and taboos). (20 points—1 page)4.   In your own words, define and give examples of the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism from Chapter 3. Select one person who is ethnocentric and one who is a cultural relativist from your movie. Use elements of the plot and specific scenes from your movie to prove that each individual fits the category, which you have given him/her. (20 points-1/2 pages)5.   What social message does this film impart? What insights does this film offer about our social world? Discuss the material in the text in your answer. (20 points-1/2 pages)Try to incorporate materials from lectures and textbooks into your essay.

Movie List (the list is not up-to-date and is not inclusive)Instructor: Bachir Idoui*Higher Learning*  

Mississippi Burning*  Mississippi Masala**  stand and Deliver*  American Me*  Glory* Thunderheart*  Pow Wow Highway* Philadelphia* Point Break*  Shawshank Redemption*  Dangerous Minds* Lord of the Flies*  Boyz in the Hood* The Outsiders??*  Once Were Warriors* A Clockwork Orange**  To Kill a Mockingbird* In the Name of the Father* My Family (Mi Familia)* The Long Walk Home**Braveheart*Platoon* King of New York* The Lost Boys??* Dirty Dancing* Blue Velvet??* Jungle Fever* Last of the Mohicans??* Henry and June??* Young Guns??* London Kills Me* Rapanui* Gross Anatomy* Crooklyn* Crimson Tide??* With Honors??* 

*Malcolm X* Out of Africa* The Mission* Pulp Fiction??* Reservoir Dogs??* Menace to Society??* Joy Luck Club??* The Color Purple??* Dances with Wolves* Dead Man Walking??* Goodfellas* 12 Monkeys??* Where the Day Takes You??* Dead Presidents* Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* Midnight Express* Bronx Tale* Blade Runner?* Saint Elmo’s Fire??* Kids*Do the Right Thing* Witness* The Untouchables* Romper Stomper* Basketball Diaries?* Dazed and Confused??* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* Colors?* The Godfather** Dead Poets Society* Far and Away* Roots* Hoop Dreams* Apocalypse Now* Legends of the Fall??** American History X