Bowling_For_Columbine

Bowling For Columbine Bowling for Columbine In his documentary titled Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore takes an in-depth look at American culture in regards to its fascination with guns and violence. In his search for the cause of this phenomenon, Moore finds out that there really is no single independent variable. What he does find out is that different people blame all different things, from our nation’s violent history, to unemployment, to television, to Marilyn Manson. By the end of the film, the viewer realizes that the search for any one simple answer is futile. Rather, what is so important is the question itself, and what responses it draws from all different elements of our society. This documentary was extremely significant sociologically. Moore made many insights into American culture, those of which can be connected to prominent social theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and George Ritzer. Throughout the course of the documentary, Moore makes several important insights into the American way of life. He paid particular attention to the notion of American’s living within a culture of fear. What is meant by this is that the media is constantly showing us images and telling us suicide, moore, society, within, school, out, high, about, people, media, culture, columbine, boys, two, time, states, one, makes, made, fact, durkheim’s, durkheim, documentary, canada, things, theories, themselves, social, seems, ritzer, result, regards, regarding, quite, middle-class