Movie Reaction Paper 2 — Social Inequalities
Hide Assignment InformationInstructionsDue date 04/10
Film: Living on One Dollar (YouTube, free)Course unit: Chapter 9 — Social Inequalities
PurposeThis assignment asks you to analyze how Living on One Dollar represents lived experiences of poverty and inequality. Using concepts from Chapter 9, examine how structural conditions, global economic relations, and local social dynamics shape everyday survival strategies and opportunities.
Length1,200–1,500 words (≈3–4 pages, 1.5-spaced).
Concise, focused papers are encouraged; meeting the lower end of the range is perfectly acceptable if your analysis is clear and well developed.
Key analytical directionsYour paper should treat the film as an anthropological case study of inequality. You may consider questions such as:
How does the film depict structural vs. individual dimensions of poverty? What forms of inequality (economic, geographic, global, gendered, etc.) are visible? How do households manage scarcity, risk, and uncertainty in their daily lives? What assumptions do the filmmakers bring, and how do local participants frame their own lives? What does the film reveal about global inequality and development narratives? Your analysis must explicitly incorporate at least one concept or reading from Chapter 9 (e.g., structural violence, social stratification, global inequality, resistance).
Formatting, sources, evaluation, submissionFollow the Movie Reaction Paper guidelines shared in the Resources folder on Brightspace.
Submit as Word → PDF. 1.5 spacing. Proper citations for any course readings or external sources. Upload your final paper to Brightspace. " inline="" style="display: inline; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: auto hidden; text-align: start; padding-left: 0.5em; margin-left: -0.5em;">
Due date 04/10
Film: Living on One Dollar (YouTube, free)Course unit: Chapter 9 — Social Inequalities
PurposeThis assignment asks you to analyze how Living on One Dollar represents lived experiences of poverty and inequality. Using concepts from Chapter 9, examine how structural conditions, global economic relations, and local social dynamics shape everyday survival strategies and opportunities.
Length1,200–1,500 words (≈3–4 pages, 1.5-spaced).
Concise, focused papers are encouraged; meeting the lower end of the range is perfectly acceptable if your analysis is clear and well developed.
Key analytical directionsYour paper should treat the film as an anthropological case study of inequality. You may consider questions such as:
How does the film depict structural vs. individual dimensions of poverty? What forms of inequality (economic, geographic, global, gendered, etc.) are visible? How do households manage scarcity, risk, and uncertainty in their daily lives? What assumptions do the filmmakers bring, and how do local participants frame their own lives? What does the film reveal about global inequality and development narratives? Your analysis must explicitly incorporate at least one concept or reading from Chapter 9 (e.g., structural violence, social stratification, global inequality, resistance).
Formatting, sources, evaluation, submissionFollow the Movie Reaction Paper guidelines shared in the Resources folder on Brightspace.
Submit as Word → PDF. 1.5 spacing. Proper citations for any course readings or external sources. Upload your final paper to Brightspace.