General Sociology: Sweet Home Alabama

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Teddy Olson Ms. Pendleton General Sociology 14 March 2016 Sweet Home Alabama A girl from Alabama named Melanie turned Fashion Designer in order to make it big in New York. After getting her big debut at the launch of her clothing line's first runway show she gets a big surprise as her boyfriend Andrew, the mayor's son, proposes to her. Shortly after being proposed to, she drives back home to Alabama to try and get her husband, Jake, to divorce her so she can marry her fiancée Andrew without him knowing she was married before. But throughout her stay in Alabama, Jake refuses her request to sign the divorce papers over and over and the two of them get into shenanigans, fighting, and reminiscing about their pasts and the rest of the small town …show more content…

So with their quiet country wedding planned out, the two fly back to New York. Now back in the south, Melanie and her friends from New York visit a large glass shop/restaurant that that find out is owned by Jake, who has apparently been selling glassware inspired by memories from their childhood. Now worrying about the wedding and second-guessing her decision to marry Andrew, Melanie and her family meet with Andrew and his mom to finish preparations for the …show more content…

Social stratification is a system that ranks people in categories based off of social inequality that arises between groups of people. As Melanie grew up in a low-income area and decided to move out to New York to make it big in New York, she was more well-liked and accepted by her peers. However, once Melanie went back to Alabama, the locals weren't a big fan of her new social status and her rich-folk, better than us, attitude. But Melanie was also guilty of pre-judging her old friends due to their lower social standings and simplistic lifestyles, even going so far as to accuse Jake of doing illegal activities when she found out he had made a sizable amount of

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