"The Shawshank Redemption"

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This paper examines the subject of the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption", which illustrates the prison institution, its impact on people and its role in society. It applies the three sociological approaches of functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism to the movie. The paper illustrates how different sociological perspectives can develop different meanings from the observations of the same events or experience.

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""The Shawshank Redemption" is a movie that deals with the institution of prison and its impact on people and its role as part of society. From a larger sociological perspective it can also be seen as a comment on all institutions in society and the difference between what they are created for and what they deliver. To consider the movie from a sociological perspective it is interesting to consider what three different perspectives would see in the movie. The movie will now be analyzed from a functionalist, conflict and symbolic interactionist perspective. Looking at the movie from these three angles will show how different sociological perspectives can find different meanings in the same events."

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