Class divided essay

Since she got done teaching, Jane has been doing trainings are conferences to teach others. Her movie A Class Divided has been shown in prisons to inmates who are trying to earn a degree. She also did training at a prison in Iowa for the guards and other staff members.

She divides the students into two groups, the blue eyes, and the brown eyes. For the first day, the “brown eyed” children are not able to go to recess, or lunch at the same time as the rest of the children. They wear a blue collar around their necks so that they are obviously different at a distance from the other students.

Sociological Case Study “A Class Divided” is a real life experiment where a teacher named Jane Elliot tested on a group of elementary students about discrimination. In the film, sociology was seen through with functionalism, symbolic interaction, and conflict perspective. In functionalism the change in...

This video relates to several chapters in our sociology book, the main chapter being chapter ten, race and ethnicity. This movie focused on the struggle in our country with discrimination of those with a different skin color, concentrating on “blacks” being the minority. At the time, people thought of black people are dirty, stupid, and bad people.