SOC 100 wk 4 Social Inequality in the Media Paper Charity Rife 1 22 2024

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1 Social Inequality in the Media Charity Rife University of Phoenix SOC/100 Laquanda Jackson January 22, 2024

2 Social Inequality in the Media The show I chose is “Star.” It is about two friends that start a music group. One of the friends dies from a drug overdose and she leaves two small girls that go into foster care system. The girls grow up and the youngest one of them is violated by her step foster father. At the age of sixteen, her sister saves her and together they find their mother's friend from all those years ago. She opens her home to them and even tries to get custody of the 16-year-old. It never happens due to the woman being an ex-felon. Consequently, for the two years she has to reside in a group home and is allowed to sign out daily to build a group with her sister and their new acquaintance. Along the way the older sister meets the daughter of a famous musician, and they link up and do music together. Social Inequalities, Social Stratifications & Theoretic Perspectives There were many social inequalities that were presented throughout the show one that stood out the most was when a group of people were protesting in front of a police station after an unarmed black man had been shot by the police for trying to break up a fight the man who was shot was the organizer of the peaceful protest and the officers knew it. The social structural norm that could have contributed to this was that it is not lawful to use force out of fear. The officers were clearly nervous, and overreactive. There is racial prejudice and clear judgment based on control and difference in socioeconomic status. The second injustice was when the Caucasian star of the show was told on numerous occasions to go back to the trailer park. When in fact, she was not from a trailer park at all. She had a way of talking to people in a disrespectful tone and had to live a terrible life in foster care and later a victim of domestic violence by pro football ball player. This is an example of

3 stereotyping and judgement. She was not school smart, but she was street smart. Star was always fighting for her beliefs and her safety. She always felt the world owed her something. In both of the above examples conflict theory and symbolic interactionism came into play. They both display deviance and crime of many varieties. Worlds collided with people from different races and socioeconomic classes. Which led to punishments, hospitalizations, murders, injuries, and deaths. The connection between social stratifications of class race and gender in the way it represents inequality in society today as it pertains to the show is that the majority of these people were middle class, some lower some upper. They all had a common goal of wanting to make something of themselves one character in the show was one of privilege they called her diva just based on the fact that her parents were rich. Whether being called a trailer park girl because of her skin color, or being in a fight as an unarmed Black man they all are equally unnerving. The most eye-opening realization is that this show was filmed in 2016 to 2018 and the injustices portrayed in the show have actually come to fruition in real life today.

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