The Blind Side Sociology

The Blind Side is a heartwarming and compelling story of the NFL player Michael Oher, who is adopted into a family that is a significantly higher social class than he. The story is a true account of a boy that went from rags to riches and depicts eloquently the social stratification in the United States.

The first five minutes of the film already begin to explore social stratification and the social inequality thereof. Michael and Steven are brought to a church school by Stevens father, where he hopes to gain favor with the football coach and ultimately enroll the two boys in school. While he is conversing with the coach, Michael and Steven begin exploring the property where they stumble across a cart of unlocked crate full of basketballs. “White people are crazy,” Michaels states. This statement implies that the community where they reside is socially- and most

As mentioned before, this is a story of a boy that goes from rags to riches. The Tuohy family is an upper-class family, Sean owns many fast food chain restaurants and Leigh Anne is an interior decorator. They go to get his clothes from his mothers and Michael refuses to let Leigh Anne out of the car. Leigh Anne is uncomfortable as the gang sitting on the steps make flirtatious gestures at her. As they are walking down the street to the Big and Tall store, there are noticeable men on the side are astounded that a white woman is walking through Hurt Village.

The Tuohys, especially Leigh Anne, begin to notice how different economic differences between them. For example, during Thanksgiving dinner, Michael takes rolls and puts them in his pants pockets to save for later, indicating that he doesn’t know where his next meal is going to come from. Leigh Anne is obviously disheartened when she learns that he has never enjoyed the simple things in life, such as owning his own bed, having a mother that read children’s books to him, or growing up with his