Kategorier: Alle - bias - hierarchy - feminism - technology

av Ryan Norkum 3 år siden

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The text discusses several key themes presented through various examples and references to TedTalks and articles. It explores unconscious bias, illustrated by a scene where a character is mistaken for a worker based on his appearance.

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Psychology

Positive Reinforcement: Throughout the entire movie people are beat by Maman, and Javed Khan. This is a physical punishment being given to the people. Furthermore, the teacher threw a book at Jamal and Salim since they were late to class.
5 Typical Mistakes Socially Intelligent People Avoid Making by Michael Thompson: The fourth point in this article is that socially intelligent people avoid speaking poorly of others. This is not exhibited by Javed Khan and Maman as they are instead, constantly putting down their followers.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: The host of the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" exhibits Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He states, "Do the right thing and in approximately 3 minutes you will be as rich as me... almost". This proves his narcissism since he is putting himself up on a pedestal.

Extrinsic Motivation: Salim shows extrinsic motivation when he kills or hurts people to avoid being punished by Javed Khan.

Psychopathy: Javed Khan is a psychopath as he injuries and controls people with no remorse for his actions.

Flynn Effect: Due to influences that may explain the Flynn Effect, the company of "Who wants to be a Millionaire" believe that Jamal is cheating. After all, he had a poor quality home environment, he does not see much media since he is in a poorer area, he had poor nutrition most of his life, and was uneducated for it as well. So with all these compounding factors the company thought he was cheating.

Operant Conditioning: Salim and Jamal's mother states, "You want me to wallop you to death, huh?". This is a technique that she hopes will teach the boys to behave by offering a punishment if they continue the undesired actions.
Mary Ainsworth's Infant Attachment Types: Salim and Jamal are in the category of Not yet attached due to the fact that their mother dies when they are young and they have no father in the picture. This leads to them attempting to survive on their own and they find poor father-figures who they end up following.

Abraham Maslow's Theory of Self Actualization: Jamal shows this and is on the stage of Belongingness and Love Needs. Throughout this entire movie he is attempting to seek out Latika and have an intimate relationship with her.

Albert Bandura's Theory of Social Learning: Salim follows the four steps in Bandura's theory. The behaviour of Maman and Javed Khan grab his attention. He retains what they teach him. He reproduces the behaviour taught by punishing Latika. His motivation to do so is due to him being afraid of being punished by Javed Khan or Maman.

Karen Horney's Theory of Neurosis: Horney states that aggression is a neurotic need to restrict life's borders and the need for power, exploitation, and self-admiration. This is seen through the character of Javed Khan, Maman, and Salim. They all use aggression to get what they want. Salim speaks poorly of Jamal and Latika so that they will follow him. He has an obsessive need for power seen when he kills Maman and joins Javed Khan in an attempt to gain more power.

Sociology

Status - Achieved Status: Salim works to become Javed Khan's right-hand-man due to the fact that he kills Maman.
Direct Social Influence: Maman demands that Salim get his brother to be the next boy to sing for him.

Sexism: This movie shows sexism towards the women. This is seen through the antagonist Javed Khan when he forces the women to dance and also how he outwardly abuses them.

Microaggressions: An american family stops an Indian man from beating up Jamal and states, "here is a bit of the real America" while handing him money. This is a subtle comment putting down the culture of Mumbai while raising their own above it.

Obedience: Latika becomes obedient when she is in the presence of Javed Khan because she fears him.

Sanctions: People in this movie are constantly being punished for their actions from Salim and Jamal's teacher hitting them with a book to Latika getting cut with a knife for running away from their group.
Conflict Theory: Karl Marx theorized that the only way for the poor to attain power would be to topple the wealthy. In this movie, Salim uses his wits to try to gain wealth. He shoots and kills Javed Khan as well which is him "toppling the wealthy".

Feminist Sociology: In this movie, men are basically deciding what women can and can not do. This is seen through the character of Latika. She faces so much sexism that she attempts to leave and when she does, the men find her and punish her. On top of that, the men in the movie control the women by the fact that they made them dance for them and made them act sexually towards them when they likely did not want to.

Learned Theory: Salim learns his behaviour of being harsh and discriminatory by his mentors, Maman, and Javed Khan.

Compliance: Salim becomes compliant when he is near Javed Khan he does not agree with what he is doing as seen when Jamal sees him praying and asking for God to forgive his sins yet he still does those terrible things.

Gender Roles: In the movie, Latika and the other females are given the role of housekeeper, as well as making the food, and presumably sexual favours.
Child Abuse: Child abuse is all throughout this movie most horrifically is probably when Maman makes a young boy go blind. However, there are countless beatings as well. Other than physical abuse though, there are still many instances of emotional abuse as well.

Discrimination: This movie shows strong discrimination against females. Specifically Latika. She is treated unfairly and she has no choice but to listen to Salim.

Bystander: There are many onlookers who do nothing when Latika is shouting out to Jamal for help as she is being kidnapped and nobody does anything.

Socialization: Salim must socialize in order to survive in the presence of Maman and Javed Khan. So, he becomes the second in command and does things he is not proud of.
Social Behaviours: Salim learns how to act by watching others around him and so, he becomes very harsh towards everybody. This draws Maman towards him and he rises through the ranks at a young age. He learned how to command people which is seen when the kids were goofing off and he made them get back to work.

Gender Stereotypes: This movie shows many stereotypes associated with gender. One of them being that Latika has to make a sandwich for Javed Khan when Jamal tries to see her.

Upstander: Jamal is an upstander when he attempts to stop Salim and his gang from taking Latika.

Anthropology

Rites of Passage: Maman has a rite of passage that when a child is proficient enough at singing, he blinds them so they may make more money on the streets.
Scarification: Latika is scared by Salim's gang to show that she is their 'property'

Cultural Materialism (Infrastructure, Structure, Superstructure): Due to the fact that Mumbai does not have many resources, this leads to them having a poorer education system. From this education system, this leads to the less educated values and ideals of the country as they show discrimination and prejudice towards women.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied "What does my Headscarf mean to you?": Abdel-Magied talks about unconscious bias in her TedTalk. This can be seen in the movie when Jamal is standing at the Taj Mahal and a white couple assumes he is a worker due to his age and garb. This is not them directly discriminating against him, however it is an unconscious bias they have.
Amy Cuddy "Your body language may shape who you are: Cuddy states, "What do we do when we feel powerless... We close up, wrap ourselves up". This is exactly what Latika was doing when in front of Javed Khan.

Amber Case "We are all Cyborgs Now": Amber case explains in her TedTalk that by using technology we are bending space and time. This is seen throughout the movie with the media and news broadcasts, and the "Phone a Friend" option in the show.

Ernestine Friedl's Theory on Feminism: Latika is not valued by Salim and his groupsince she provides no food. So she is constantlyharassed and abused.
Frans de Waal "The surprising Science of Alpha Males": In this TedTalk Waal states that in order to become the alpha male they must be intimidating, and physically powerful. In the movie the alpha male of the gang is Javed Khan and he influences what the others do. Until like apes, he is overpowered and killed by Salim.

BBC "Do Chimpanzee Wars Prove that Violence is Innate?": This article shows how humans and chimps are similar. First, the article states that they engage in inter-group violence. Much like Salim did when he killed Maman, and Javed Khan. It also stated that they gang-up in big groups versus a small group in aroung 5-1 numbers. Javed Khan does this when he goes to confront Salim. He breaks down the door and 5 others rush through the door with him to kill Salim.

Cultural Relativism: A couple from America was visiting Mumbai and stopped a man from beating Jamal stating, "here is a bit of the real America" which shows that they are comparing America to India and feel themselves superior which is why they gave him money.
Similarities to Apes (Violence): This movie shows many forms of violence from the torture at the beginning to mothers hitting children to Latika getting cut with a knife. Violence is a trait that is shared and likely passed down from human's primate ancestors.