Avatar Sociology and Jake Essay - 1547 Words

The argument that I will be talking about in my essay is how the themes inclusion, otherness and social solidarity take place in the movie avatar. All these three themes relate in many different ways to Jake and the atmosphere in the movie itself. The three philosophers that will be discussed are Durkheim, Goffman and Mead. The concepts that are used in this essay are to argue the thesis. Front stage and back stage, self, presentation of self, me and I (the diagram), social inclusion, organic solidarity, mechanical solidarity are the concepts that are argued in this essay. The film avatar is based on a character named Jake who is paralyzed from the waist down, he agrees to be sent on a mission to a whole new different world called†¦show more content†¦According to the mead, the concept of self is â€Å"something which has a development, it is not initially there, at birth but arises in the process of social experience and activity, that is, develops in the given individual as a result of his relations to that process was a whole and to other individuals within that process, (Mead, 1959:23)† Mead’s concept of ‘self’ relates to the film when avatar is sent to Pandora and he meets Neytiri, and as they start to get know each other better she describes him in way which he is like a baby who is making noises but doesn’t know what to do. The character of Neytiri relates to the concept of the self because Mead says that the self is something that is a development and arises in experiences and activity. In this case N eytiri, is trying to express that Jake is similar to a baby and has no sense of â€Å"me† and needs to experience living in the world of avatar’s to get a good sense of â€Å"me,† and ‘self’. However, Jake is trying to develop and get used to in a world, which is totally different from him; he faces many self-conflicts. The diagram â€Å"Fred and the personality structure† can narrate Jake and Neytiri and there conflicts. The diagram looks at the self conflict between the I and me. Throughout the movie the audience realize that Jake is narrating the plot and questions himself before making any decisions. This is an example of conflict between Me and I. What Jake is going through and his determination to do, which is