Pulp Fiction - a Sociological Debate - 1412 Words

Sociology 2XX Critically anlayse a popular culture ‘text’ utlising relevant theories and debates In sociological theory there are many concepts discussed that are utilized in the analyses of society and culture. Some of the main concepts are Postmodernism, Historical Materialism, Structuralism, Interpretive Sociology and Poststructuralism to name a few. These theories are relevant to the research of understanding certain or specific cultural texts. These concepts provide problems and solutions associated with some of the research approaches fore-mentioned. Analysing the main dimensions will be covered by discussing the appropriate concepts separately and by individually contrasting the classical and modern theories with Quentin†¦show more content†¦Dialectical materialism is the view that that the world exists independently of our perception of it and that as it is sole reality it has primacy over the ideal, the imagined, and the spiritual. In the film Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino the theme of capitalism was truly apparent, from the discussion of the Big Mac in France by Jules and Vince to the success of the gang boss Marsellus. It is relatively evident that it played a big part in making the film especially where other more obvious displays of greed and capitalism are in the final scenes when the couple, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, holds up the restaurant. The man explains to his wife that nobody ever thinks to rob a coffee shop and he makes the point that it is the perfect crime of opportunity. All of the primary and characters and protagonists display materialistic personas, attempting to recreate their own past and future by means of consumption and a form of class struggle against the gang leader, portraying a land owner or bourgeoisie, by the ‘workers’. Postmodernism is a term which is highly contested in the sociological world, where it is used to indicate a significant detachment from modernism. It is easier to give the uses of the term; ‘to give a name to the present historical period, to name a specific style in arts and architecture and to name a point of rupture or disjuncture in epistemology’ (Buchanan, 2010). For this,Show MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesbe among the processes that distinguish that era, not only from those proceeding it but from the rest of human history altogether. The essay by Gabrielle Hecht and Paul Edwards provides a nuanced interweaving of analyses of the nuclear arms race, debates over nuclear power as a major energy source, and the communications revolution made possible by computer technologies that did so much to shape the cold war standoff between the Soviet and American superpowers and the transition to a new century