To Kill A Mockingbird Cultural Analysis

The idea that your daily routine inside your society is normal, and that any other form of living would be somehow wrong; this ethnocentric view is not that uncommon. US American literature, as well as different media forms depict such cultural norms. In the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, young tomboy Scout slowly enters adolescents and begins to see the social dynamics that are prevalent inside her small community. The small towns social hierarchy allows for prejudicial acts, which are seen as norms; as well as acts of ethnic discrimination against the lower class black community. Although for the film’s set time these racial interactions are seen as normal events, as a current US American, these relationships are predominantly

Such societies are based on things such as ethnicity or religions beliefs. Even common nations are bases for culture. Culture can exist any setting where a set group of people share commonalities. The town of Maycomb is no exception, and practices its own traditions and customs. Inside a culture, “people have a tendency to (a) create and rank cultures one above the other, and (b) distribute resources inequitably to populations in different strata. In doing so, people cultivate both cultural diversity and cultural inequality” (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2008, p. 10). For Maycomb the social hierarchy is divided by race into two groups, where whites are at the top and blacks at the bottom. Even the whites seem to exhibit a more complex system where farmers are below individuals who are more educated. The meaning here is that the towns organization is built upon an accepted social hierarchy where race determines one’s social status. Because such acts are accepted and practice as a culture they have allowed the division to become a norm. “Cultural habits, perceptions, and inventions mild “human nature” in many directions” (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2008, p. 15); for the town their habits and perceptions took them in the direction of racial

The town of Maycomb exhibits a multicultural society that is structured on a hierarchy built upon race. The white prominent race uses prejudice and various discrimination techniques against the lower economic black community. The relationship of town to the black people is a bad one; such acts in today’s society are not acceptable. It is understood that these actions were social norms during the 1930’s and because of this the culture developed these habits. Regardless, it is still a bad