http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqvnVAL8-1g
Sociological Imagination is a pretty big topic that we are reading now in class. It talks about how society sets standards for us that we must follow and choices that are sometimes out of our hands and control. Few of the examples in the story like Andre who can’t land a job because of a bad economic status are not rare in fact common today. Well maybe less today than in 2004. The clip I chose is a bit unorthodox but it shows the issues we are talking about very well. It is about Wile. E coyote and his quest of catching the roadrunner, his life goal. We can all relate because we are want to pursue something. We are chasing something that might be impossible at the moment. We fail but we keep trying until we get it. Sometimes when we do we are actually surprised and don’t know what to just like Coyote in the clip.
A good example of that view would be let’s say a child in Elementary who is not the brightest decades that he wants to go to Princeton. He will keep trying his hardest, a goal that might be just out of his reach but he does not give up and keeps trying. Along the way he might get influenced by the society and realize that he will never make it because of things like money, social status or even his personal abilities. He becomes discouraged and starts to question his own abilities. Even though his goal might have been achievable he fell victim to everyone around him who said, “ No that is not possible”.
I guess the clip I picked is somewhat similar because it is an endless quest of catching the roadrunner. The quest had its ending decided by the producers and the makers of the cartoon way before Wile. E knew what it is. The coyote was never destined to reach his goal, he will never catch the roadrunner but he still keeps trying. The society being the makers is telling him you will never catch him, it is not possible but the Coyote keeps on going with his futile attempts to reach his goal. We can all relate to that somehow because we all have or had dreams that just did not happen. Those dreams were mostly not achievable because of the society and its effects on us by telling us and influencing our opinions. We all tried to achieve those goals but were troughed by an outside force sometimes that being our parents, friends, teachers or even the media. Going back to the reading people like Andre or Michael who were never at any fault in the end they just fell victim to the grasp that the society has on us and there is nothing we can do.
