Social Reproduction and Preservation of Social Relations

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Social reproduction and preservation of social relations Group of people have found so hard to classify people regarding their culture but over the period the use of cultural integration has gradually changed the classification. With the development of technology over the period social reproduction has been practiced all over the world and regardless of generations that appear preservation of these social relations has been preserved. Regardless of our efforts the fear of belonging to a diverse culture, there will always be barriers between us in case there is no means of integrating this relations. To understand the concept of social reproduction I considered watching movie with the title “The Village”, which is a story of community that lived in an unspecified time and place, of which is surrounded by a forest of dangerous animals and horrific creatures. The dressing and language and lack of technological advancement in the movie clearly indicate that it is a community of the ancient century (Scott). Social reproduction is highly based on education and unlike a democratic and civilized modern society, the characters in the movie speaks a language that clearly tells you that they lack proper modern education. Just like great sociologist Christopher Doob defined social reproduction as the kind of activities that are able to replicate themselves from a generation to the other with an impact of bringing social inequality, the characters in the movie are made to believe what they are needed to believe and they as well see what is required of them to see. The development of the scenes in the movie indicates how the structures in the community are able to make people live in fear. The film brings the concept of social relation in such a way that you can understand reasons as to why individual fights are so common. In the film the fear that has been subjected into
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