The Hunger Games Catching Fire Sociological Analysis

The movie “ The Hunger Games, Catching fire,” is part two from the first movie. This movie is based on Suzanne Collin’s trilogy novel “The Hunger Games.” The only way to understand this movie and the plot of catching fire, you have to have a good understanding of the first movie of the trilogy. In the first “Hunger Games” movie, the totalitarian country of Panem is described as a country divided into 12 districts and a capital city-the capitol.Every year the Capitol hosts the Hunger Games which there a 24 different tributes from each district. They team everyone up with a male and female thats randomly selected throughout each district.They engage in combat by killing each other and the last one standing is crowded and is the winner of the

For sociologists such as Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim, they might imply that the way in which the society of Panem is structured can bring some social order, although not for an eternity. Each district specializes but they get to keep little to none of their production while the Capitol is different districts can be seen as different institutions with the government being the Capitol. Panem functions together, with the 12 districts providing necessary supplies and the Capitol regulating the policies and laws of the country.Social order is brought under the enforcement of laws and Peacekeepers, who serve as policemen under the Capitol. However, the Capitol wants to maintain its totalitarian ruling, the districts will eventually be fed up with the unjust laws and the social inequalities that they experience frequently. The districts wants change, they want a revolution. Karl Marx would probably add in to the analysis that social inequality is due to the ownership or the lack of ownership of material resources. As seen in the movie of “Catching Fire,” every district seems to be at the very edge of poverty even though they produce goods, they don't get to keep them.The Capitol owns most of it not all of their production. The social inequality between the district and the Capitol will eventually lead to a revolution formed by the districts.In order to stop the revolution from happening President Snow is in dire need of eliminating the source of the revolution, Katniss Everdeen the symbol of hope. Throughout the movie, the paradigm that represents the most is conflict theory. The conflict theory is based on Karl Marx that with social inequality society will go through protest and revolution in order to bring change. Katniss is the symbol of hope, is destined to be voice of the revolution and the voice change. She defined the 74th Hunger Games by