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Introduction
This document is intended to support the second assignment for Introduction sociology. In this document, you’ll find information about what to do to prepare to watch the movie, how best to analyze the movie, and what to do in your assignment. It’s important to read through this whole document in advance so you know what’s expected of you.
The content of this document is as follows:
1. For watching – what should you do in preparation p.3
2. While watching – how best to watch the movie p.5
3. After looking – how to report your findings (the assignment) p.6
The film Sin nombre is a film that is sociologically very relevant and interesting. The film comes across a large number of social problems that we can look at and try to understand with a sociological perspective. However, the representation of these social problems in the film is very graphic and gives a realistic picture of, among other things, the fate of poor migrants, (deadly) gang violence and attempted rape.1 Keep in mind that this can be perceived as shocking and prepare for it. If you expect that it will be difficult for you to watch the film due to personal experiences with these topics, please contact the coordinator of the course

1. For watching – what should you do in preparation
Before you watch the movie, it’s important that you take the mandatory substance to yourself. This means that you are prior to watching the movie:
• Have read the obligatory substance of Lectures 8 and 9. That means: chapter8 and 9 of Macionis, Peper and Van der Leun (2019).
• The slidecasts of Hoorcollege 8 and 9 have been viewed and listened to.
• Have read the viewing guide below.

1.1 Watch guide film ‘Sin nombre’
This Watchdial serves as a handle for watching the movie. For a good understanding of the film and a good preparation for your assignment, it is important that you can answer the questions below. It is highly recommended that you take notes while watching the movie!
Read the questions below:

A. The movie
• Summarizes the film briefly: what is the film about?
• What are the main events?
• Who are the most important people in the film?
• What did you think of the film?

B. Sociology specifically
• Describe how the three levels of analysis (macro-meso-micro) come back to the film.
o Give examples per level and indicate the characteristics of the examples mentioned (e.g.: macro level: which bodies or individuals represent society in film? Na. Think carefully about what falls below the different levels in this context. This film does not take place (unlike Once were warriors) within a single society, which has an effect on the question of what falls below, for example, the ‘macro’ level).

C. Sociology general
• What sociological themes do you recognize in the film?
o Sociological imagination: unleash your sociological imagination on the film by searching for the general in the particular and the unusual in the familiar (see also assignment 1). Explain your answer with examples.
• How can you link the film to lecture 8 and 9 and chapter8 and 9 of Macionis, Peper and Van der Leun (2019)? Watch the film from the following themes (NB for this you must of course also explain the concepts):
o Social stratification: how does the theme social stratification play a role in the film? o Global stratification: how does the theme of global stratification play a role in the
Film?
o Social mobility and status consistency: to what extent is there among the main characters
social mobility, or status consistency?
o Social status: what forms of social status do we see in the film and how?

2. While watching – how best to watch the movie
Watching a movie to analyze it is different from watching a movie for relaxation. Here are some tips to make this process go well:
• Be prepared: make sure you have all the sociological knowledge you need.
• Pause the movie where necessary and take notes.
• Watch film in one go.It’s not advisable to film
start and finish the look a few days later. Of course, you can do so much
take breaks if you want to.
• Keep the questions on the previous pages when you watch the movie. Eventually
you have to be able to answer these.

3. After looking – how to report your findings (the assignment)
After you’ve watched the movie, it’s good to talk about this with fellow students and the teachers. This can be done until the evening before the working group via the Canvas Discussions page of your working group. In addition, on Thursday 30 April we have a digital working group via Google Meet on the film and the assignment. It starts at the time of your regular working group. Students are encouraged to participate and ask questions here to the teacher about the film, fabric and the assignment here. For a good course of action, it is important that the Discussions page is used in advance, this is the basis on which we talk further during the meeting. We ask everyone to participate in the meeting that will take place at the time that the working group you are registered for would start. In this way, we can better ensure that the meeting runs smoothly.

3.1 The assignment
Below is the full assignment 2 explained. For questions, you can of course turn to the Discussions pages, the Google Meet meeting and the teachers.

Assignment 2 Introduction sociology – Sin nombre
The second assignment for the course Introduction Sociology is linked to the lectures in week 17 and 18 (HC 8 and 9), the working group on Thursday 30 April and the substance covered in it. The assignment consists of writing a paper.
The film ‘Sin nombre’ will be made available to the students via Canvas at the end of week 17.

The assignment:
• Assignment: The film “Sin nombre” shows the journey of a number of people to the United States. In your assignment you should focus on main characters Sayra and Willy. Describe the social reality of these main characters and show that they are embedded in structures. Use the themes of stratification and social mobility in your description.
• Answer the following questions in your assignment:
• To what extent is this film sociologically relevant? To answer this question you can use your sociological imagination.
• How do we see the themes of social stratification and global stratification reflected in the film? Work this out using examples.
• To what extent and in what way does Sayra and Willy have social mobility? Also make use of the sociological ideas about attributed and acquired status. Work this out using a few examples.
• Based on your own findings and the discussion on the Discussions page and in the Google Meet meeting, you write a paper of about 1200 s in correct Dutch with a clear structure. You can design your paper at your own discretion, but the layout must at least look well-groomed. We recommend working with paragraphs and subheadings. We explicitly refer to what you learned during Project Criminology.
• Use literature (this may be the prescribed substance). If you use literature (for example the prescribed textbook) you must refer to it correctly, according to the APA standards. You also include a bibliography for the sources used. Not (correctly) referring to a consulted source is considered plagiarism in science and has consequences. For the rules regarding referral, see for example: https://www.auteursrechten.nl/apa-richtlijnen.
• Submit your paper via Canvas