Specifics: This assignment has two parts.
The first part focuses on describing your selected story or media example.
Second, you need to analyze the story or example in light of a single or two closely related sociological concepts. This is the most important part of the assignment. You need to make a connection between the article, episode, or movie you have selected and a sociological concept that we have discussed in class. The key to you succeeding in this assignment is to make direct and detailed connections to a specific course concept. This will mean citing specific connections from the Manza book or another course reading.
Information : for Summary and what is code switching and code switching in the movie
Every bellow and everything in orange are copy pasted from the website.
Sorry for bothering you is all about code switching
Culture: systems of belief and knowledge shared by members of a group or society that shape individual and group behavior and attitudes
This includes: language
Culture as a practice : set of tool for social action- a “tool kit” of assumptions and behaviors for daily life” p.115
-Tool kits (Ann Swidler)
-A set of habits, skills, and styles that individuals use to navigate daily life
-we use different parts of our tool kits to accomplish different goals
-”Tool Kits” example
-love as a voluntary choice vs. love as a commitment
-past experience may make ppl leery of commitment
-inexperience may make choices unknowable
Tool kits (Swidler): a set of habits, skills, and styles that individuals use to navigate daily life. We use different parts of our “tool kits” to accomplish different goals.
Culture as “Tool Kit”
This contemporary notion of culture as something to be used and drawn upon comes from sociologist Ann Swidler (1986). From this perspective, people do not just live within a culture but use elements of that culture to inform their behavior and decision-making. They use “cultural equipment” to make sense of their world (see Milkie and Denny 2014). This approach is very much related to the culture as a meaning approach whereby people selectively use culture to inform or justify behavior rather than merely being passively affected by it. Cultural sociologists today are generally in agreement that culture is simultaneously constraining and enabling (Alexander 2003; Hays 2000). That is, culture affects social existence (people’s behavior, choices, proclivities, etc.) and can be oppressive, but is also subject to change and transformation based on lived realities.
Code-switching, process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting. Sociolinguists, social psychologists, and identity researchers are interested in the ways in which code-switching, particularly by members of minority ethnic groups, is used to shape and maintain a sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a larger community.
“culture does not just establish differences in how we interpret the work and give it meaning but rather influences what kinds of strategies and cations are practically available to us” -117
Information : for Summary and what is code switching and code switching in the movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You_(film)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/20/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/sorry-to-bother-you-review/564263/
“Sorry to bother you” a satirical comedy, social thriller, genre-blending movie with bizarre visual effects about of black man who is gets a telemarketing job and things get a little crazy.
(( Riley is trying to confront the very ways we communicate with each other, the sometimes-blurry boundaries between race and class, and the increasingly overt malevolence of free-market capitalism—all within the confines of a raucous comedy.))
“Sorry to bother you”
takes place: (( In an alternative present-day version of Oakland, ads for a company called WorryFree offer a life free from paying bills and with free food and lodging, but at the cost of a lifetime work contract, a practice deemed legal and not equivalent to slavery.- Wikipedia))
Our main character: (( Cassius “Cash” Green lives in his uncle Sergio’s garage with his girlfriend, Detroit, and the only job he can find is working as a telemarketer on the lower levels of the RegalView company.
The important part: (( Cash has trouble selling to customers until an older coworker, Langston, teaches him to use his “white voice” — one that conveys a tone of confident, carefree affluence — to sell. Wikipedia)) ((Cash discovers he has a special talent for selling with his white voice, and his manager suggests Cash will soon be promoted to the elusive and mysterious position of “Power Caller.” )) Cash is promoted to Power Caller. and is instructed to only use his white voice, He makes a lot of money and is able to afford a new car and apartment, and to pay off Sergio’s house. ))
(( wet-behind-the-ears telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) is smarting from yet another person hanging up on him. His co-worker Langston (Danny Glover) gives him a much-needed tip: success in this game requires him to ditch his natural tone and start speaking in a “white voice” (“I’m not talking about Will Smith white,” he says). Suddenly, people stop slamming their phones down and start listening. His sales increase. Then they skyrocket. Cassius’s “white voice” (dubbed by Arrested Development’s David Cross) gets him promoted up and up until he is elevated to a “power caller”, an exclusive broker to the wealthiest 1%.)) the guardian
(( Use a white voice. No, not merely nasal, but also unconcerned, unpressured, unrushed—the voice of someone who has never been fired but only laid off. It’s not the way white people actually talk, the mentor explains, but the way they think they ought to sound. Cash tries it (the abruptly high-pitched, singsong tones that emerge from Stanfield’s mouth are voiced by David Cross), and it works too well. It’s not just that Cash begins to rack up sales. It’s that you see him straighten up and start to smile, with pride and pleasure brightening his face for the first time. And worse: Now that he’s using his white voice, Cash no longer feels the slightest empathy for the people he’s got on the line.))(( a Steve Buscemi-esque, nasal “yes-indeedy” patter that Cassius discovers he’s a natural at))
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This part I have written what’s in green is are quotes that do not need to be change just added in
https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/sorry-to-bother-you-white-voice-code-switching
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-code-switching-sorry-to-bother-you-20180714-story.html
https://www.newsy.com/stories/sorry-to-bother-you-and-the-comedy-of-code-switching/
https://www.businessinsider.com/talking-white-code-switch-implicit-bias-sorry-to-bother-you-2018-6
Sorry to bother you deals with a lot of crucial and interesting social issues but for this paper we are focusing on Code switching. Code switching is the phenomenon as to where a person switches their usual pattern of speaking and acting to conform to a different culture. More specifically culture is not just a systems of belief and knowledge shared by members of a group or society but its also a practice that shape individual and group behavior and attitudes. “culture does not just establish differences in how we interpret the work and give it meaning but rather influences what kinds of strategies and actions are practically available to us” -117. Code switching in a subset of Culture as a practice and a demonstration of s ann swindlers “tool kit”.
Code switching is a current well debated and strong social movement. As usually code switching is common practice of black Americans that have over the time established theier own subculture
“people do not just live within a culture but use elements of that culture to inform their behavior and decision-making”- quote
“They use “cultural equipment” to make sense of their world” – quote
