Honey Bees Sociology

Created in 2007, the Bee Movie discusses many different sociological concepts, which would be expected since Jerry Seinfeld was a writer of the film and voiced Barry B. Benson, the main character. The first concept is groups. The sociological perspective that the film is centered around is functionalist. This can be seen in how the hive works. Every bee has a certain job that intertwines with another. The overall goal of the hive is to create a well-balanced system through everyone doing their part until a perfect society is created. The world of the bees and humans is based on this perspective since the movie shows how much the two species need the other. After Barry wins his court case against the humans, the quality of the human race beings to decrease without

From the perspective of Barry, the honey bee race are slaves to humans. Bees are locked in steel cages, forced to produce honey that is later stolen by the humans, poisoned daily, and they are never given any profit from the honey sales. Even if the humans do not mean to be, they clearly are treating honey bees as second class citizens, and so are being racist to this race of bees. In correlation to that, it is clear that all the beekeepers know that the bees are intelligent as their hives at the honey farm are filled with pictures and decorations. So, the beekeepers choose to ignore the fact that bees have feelings and thoughts, and they still attack them and take their honey. Discovering this, Barry sues the human race for the crimes they have committed against the honey bees. The humans, instead of admitting that they have been treating the bees terribly, take the bees to trial in which the honey bee race is taunted, Adam is nearly killed, and they are again poisoned with lethal gas. During the trial, Barry points out that the humans are being racist to the honey bees by stating the fact that the humans abuse and take advantage of the