Problem
Nuyorican Dream youtube video
Nuyorican Dream, consider some of the sociological factors that help to explain what is going on in this video and why people end up where they do.
A. How would a conservative behaviorist explain what is happening in the video? What is the role of culture in this video?
B. How would a Liberal Structuralist explain what is happening in the video? How do political and economic structures play a role in what happens?
C. What is the role of education in the video? Does it help promote upward mobility or inhibit upward mobility?
D. What do you think will happen to the youngest children in the video? What do you predict their outcomes will be and why? (Use "Social Reproduction Theory" to develop your answer.)
E. Why do you think the film is entitled "The Nuyorican Dream?"
F. Other comments, thoughts and/or questions?