Roger And Me Analysis

Brief Intro Roger & Me, is a documentary that was directed by Michael Moore in 1989. The purpose of this documentary was to demonstrate the negative impact the shutdown of General Motors had on the town of Flint, Michigan. According to Michael Moore, Flint was the birthplace and former home to General Motors before Roger Smith, CEO of GM, decided to save money by closing down all the factories in Flint and opening new factories in Mexico, where labor was cheaper. Therefore, laying off over 33,000 employees leading them to live in poverty and increasing the violence rate. Since the majority of the economy was supported by the jobs that GM provided for the citizens in Flint. Stratification

This film is a great example of stratification because it shows us how Roger Smith, a rich wealthy man only cares about his interested regardless of the damage it made, a longest his interest are meet. Conley also states, that stratification is the systematic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationship. Which applies perfectly to Roger because he remind rich and had a larger revenue by opening his companies in

Roger had a greater advantage over everyone in Flint that was power, money, and respect. He had the power to keep GM open or close as well to assure a couple of jobs. Money to spend, buy, and life a wealthy life style with no deprivations because of course he was CEO of GM. Although he was laying off workers he had the respect of the workers be this auto workers had pride and passion of building GM autos. Using this three things in his advantage he started slowly laying off workers and using that money to build new GM companies in Mexico. Unfortunately, for this auto workers they were no jobs available to them after the laid off as for Roger money was raining to