SOC 125 GCCCD Beauty and the Beast by Disney Essay

Watching the movie Beauty and the Beast 2017. 

You will have the opportunity to watch a film of your choice and analyze how it depicts traditional gender
roles, gender norms, social expectations, relationships, and family. You will be able to analyze how the
film supports social order, and conformity and perpetuates traditionally gendered socialization. You may
want to begin by analyzing how social expectations and values are expressed: media acts as an agent of
socialization as it teaches us what is expected or not by society. Media can exert strong cohesion within
society and groups. You may examine portrayals of family and romantic relationships.