control being exerted by the desire to be accepted by the
community, social control must be maintained by law and
punishments. Thus, not only are cultures in peripheral
countries endangered (p210), but also the fundamental ways in
which these people interact socially.
My personal thoughts on the film are slightly mixed. My
eyes were opened to the system of excessive consumption
foisted upon us by corporate greed, at the expense of the
environment and humanity itself. While the film was
informative and entertaining, I question the validity of some of
the statistics the narrator cited. I do not doubt the numbers—I
question her interpretation and rhetoric relative to the
statistics. For instance, she stated that 200,000 people a day
are leaving rural communities for the cities, to work in
factories. She leads you to believe 200,000 new people are daily
relocating to cities. If that were the case, I think the planet
would eventually run out of people. But, clarification on some
statistics aside, the message was clear-if our world doesn’t
change profoundly, we are in for big trouble, sooner rather
than later.
References
Schaefer, R. T. (2015). Sociology; a brief introduction, 11th edition, New
York: McGraw-Hill Education.