Analysis of “Chinese Partner”from Sociology Perspective

Analysis of “Chinese Partner”from Sociology perspective

The movie “Chinese Partner” tells a story about the process of three young men get together to entrepreneurs. After watching “Chinese Partner”, I observed four main sociological theories which are related to the movie. First, it is the deviance behaviors. Secondly, it is the socialization. Then comes the stratification and the last is school education.

Deviance

Cheng Dongqing chose to be a home tutor apart from being an English teacher in Yanyuan University. And this behavior was considered to be a deviant behavior at that time, because Yanyuan University thought teachers taught outside to earn money would cause adverse effects to school, disrupt the teaching order and did not be allowed by school. Cheng’s behavior was thought to be against with the social norm. Cheng Dongqing is a timid man, he chose to conduct deviant behavior because he wanted to earn more money to take care of his girlfriend and his family but there were too little on the legitimate means according to strain theory. From a sociology perspective, society uses social control to avoid and discourage deviance, and to pressurize individuals to follow social control. In the movie, Cheng was fired and criticized his behavior by broadcasting.

Socialization

In the movie, Meng Xiaojun told Cheng that everyone had a dream to go to America and then Cheng wanted to go to America as well. At that time, through the construction of social reality, people gave meanings a place to change the whole world and realize dream to America. With these meanings and the process of socialization, individuals shared the same dream: went to America. People who applied America visa successfully, for example, Meng, felt proudly and yelled:“America, I am coming”and people around embassy applauded him with envy. However, people who failed to get and America visa in the movie looked sorrowful and hopeless and someone even bellowed before the embassy. People who...