LUCES, JOSE EDGAR II N.

BS REM 2-1

SOCIOLOGY
PROF. CONSTANTINO

Theories/ Philosophy/ Principle of Philosophers

1. FATALISTIC SUICIDE
By: Emile Durkheim
EXPLANATION:
A person whose future and passions are violently blocked thinking that he is
destined to die.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Joy Lobo, who has passion for machines, commits suicide because Viru ignored
his project (helicopter with wireless camera) and his convocation dates that his father
wanted to make a train reservation and then Viru said to his father that Joy wouldnt
graduate via a phone call.
When Raju jumps from the building because of a difficult choice between his
friend Rancho, and his family that Viru putted on him

2. POLITICAL REVOLUTION
By: Karl Marx
EXPLANATION:
The only means whereby the improvement of social conditions could be attained.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Ranchos eagerness to change Virus way of teaching provokes him that he make
the lives of the three idiots harder for them.

3. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

By: Herbert Spencer
EXPLANATION:
Societies that adapt to their surroundings and can compete will survive, those that
do not will meet difficulties and perish.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Imperial College of Engineering is one of the finest and top university that only
few students have studied and graduated in the said university.
The flashbacks shows that Rancho as a kid skipped through classes even he is not
enrolled just to gain knowledge.

4. SUBJECTIVE MEANING
By: Max Weber
EXPLANATION:
The significance of subjective meaning people give to their interaction with other
people.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
The father of the real Rancho is very keen on having his son a degree so he send
our Rancho (Phunsukh Wangdu) to study and finish Engineering in the name of his son.
By doing this his reputation will not be demoralized because of his turtle brained son.

5. SOCIAL ECOLOGY
By: Robert Park
EXPLANATION:
It deals with the relationship of groups to their environment (competition basis
process).
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Chaturs competitiveness on the class to be on top is a good example for this. He
is a show off and he thinks he is the most successful student.

6. LOOKING GLASS SELF

By: Charles Horton Cooley
EXPLANATION:
Our self-concepts and identities are reflection of how others perceive us are
important than reality.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Suhas, Pias fianc, only cares on his wealth that he didnt care in the feelings of
Pia when she lark him that she lost her expensive watch that was given by him.

7. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION THEORY

By: George Herbert Cooley, Charles Horton Cooley, William Isaac
Thomas
EXPLANATION:
It shows how society affects individuals and how individuals affect society.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
The main protagonist of the movie, Rancho Shamalddas Chanchad, help or
influence most of the character in the movie. Take for instance, the scene where he help
the father of Raju to get to the hospital tighten the friendship of the two.

8. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
By: Peter Blau
EXPLANATION:
Psychic rewards such as praising someone for a job well done, may be equally if
not more gratifying than money or material gifts.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
When Viru gave the astronauts pen to Rancho, he said that he lied on saying that
he is an idiot that he had never seen an extraordinary student as much as Rancho are,

9. THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS

By: Thorstein Veblen

EXPLANATION:
It perceive the lavish spending of the rich beyond their needs.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Suhas is always bringing the topic on how wealthy he is, that he talks about the
expensive things that he wore or have.

10. DRAMATURGICAL THEORY

By: Erving Goffman
EXPLANATION:
Sociological perspective starting from symbolic interactionism and commonly
used in micro sociological accounts of social interaction in everyday life.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Raju dumped his rings and went to the job interview, learning not to rely on it. His
frank behavior put him to pass the said interview.
Farhan decided not to go for his job interview to tell his father that he doesnt
want to be an engineer because all he wanted was to be a professional wildlife photographer.

Concepts of Culture

1. CULTURE AS A CUMULATIVE DEPOSIT OF KNOWLEDGE

EXPLANATION:
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of
the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the
course of generations through individual and group striving.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
This concept is can be seen inside the Imperial College of Engineering. All
students are striving hard in order to graduate and be an engineer someday. In one scene
where Viru sent Rancho to be their professor, Rancho gave a specific words that all students
must know their meaning within a few seconds. The eagerness and striving of students to
find their meaning are related to this concept.

2. CULTURE AS A WAY OF LIFE

EXPLANATION:
A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and
symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by
communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
The movie had shown us that Raju came from the lower class family where he is
the bread-winner of his family while Farhans family belongs to the middle class where his
father sacrifices a lot in order for Farhan to study comfortably. It is also shown that the
family of the real Rancho belongs to the upper class.

Characteristics of Culture

1. CULTURE IS LEARNED
EXPLANATION:
Culture is an acquired quality or behavior. It is not biologically inherited but
learnt socially by individuals. In other words any behavior or quality which is socially
acquired or learned is called culture. Behaviors learned through socialization habits and
thoughts are called culture. Human beings learn or acquire culture by living in group. He
learns it from society through education.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
In the last part of the story, we can see that Rancho build a school for the youth
that specializes mainly on machines. Rancho taught these students from what he learnt from
his previous experiences.

2. CULTURE IS A SOCIAL PRODUCT

EXPLANATION:
Product develops by many people interacting in a group. No man is an island he is
always a part of a group. Culture does not exist in isolation neither it is an individual
phenomenon. It is a product of society. It originates and develops through social interaction.
It is shared by the members of society. No man can acquire culture without association with
other human beings. Man becomes man only among men. It is the culture, which helps man
to develop human qualities in a human environment. Deprivation is nothing but deprivation
of human qualities.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
When Raju take the advice of Viru that he should isolate himself to Rancho and
Farhan by moving to another room, he realize that it will just worsen the scenario and
decided to move back.

3. CULTURE IS A SOURCE OF GRATIFICATION

EXPLANATION:

Culture provides proper opportunities, and prescribes means for the satisfaction of
our needs and desires. These needs may be biological or social in nature. Our need for food,
shelter and clothing and our desire for status, name, fame and money etc. are all, for
example, fulfilled according to the cultural ways. Culture determines and guides the varied
activities of man.
In fact culture is defined as the process through which human beings satisfy their
wants. Culture fulfills many social psychological, moral etc. needs of individuals. Culture is
created and maintained because of different needs. It fulfills needs of both society as well as
individuals.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Each character have different desires for their lives that their working to achieve.
Raju wants to finished engineering and find a job in order to help his family rise from
poverty. Farhan wants to be a wildlife photographer and Rancho just want to learn and gain
knowledge.

4. CULTURE IS THE DISTINCTIVE WAY OF LIFE OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE

EXPLANATION:
The members of the society have developed their unique way of life that suits
their needs and particular situation. Although all people have culture, such culture differ from
one society to another.
Culture is variable and changeable. It varies and changes from society to society.
Because each and every society has its own culture. It also varies within a society from time
to time. Ways of living of people of a particular society varies from time to time.
Every society has a culture of its own. It differs from society to society. Culture of
every society in unique to itself. Cultures are not uniform. Cultural elements such as customs,
traditions, morals, ideals, values, ideologies, beliefs in practices, philosophies institutions,
etc. are not uniform everywhere. Ways of eating, speaking, greeting, dressing, entertaining,
living etc. of different sects differ significantly. Culture varies from time to time also. No
culture ever remains constant or changeless.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
In the scene where the three idiots went to Rajus house and didnt ate much for
dinner. They slipped to the reception wedding of Virus daughter where they ate as much as
they can yet still caught by Viru.

5. CULTURE IS MATERIAL AND NON-MATERIAL

EXPLANATION:
Mans behavior results in creating objects. Men were behaving when they made
these things. To make these objects required numerous and various skills which human
beings gradually built up through the ages. Man has invented something else and so on.
Occasionally one encounters the view that man does not really make steel or a battleship.
All these things first existed in a state nature.
Man merely modified their form, changed them from a state in which they were to
the state in which he now uses them. The chair was first a tree which man surely did not
make. But the chair is more than trees and the jet airplane is more than iron ore and so forth.
Material culture, such as buildings and machines, are the products or outputs of
the application of mans knowledge and skills which are basically non-material.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Rancho continued and improved the invention (helicopter with a wireless camera)
of Joy Lobo. He failed many times and try some test a few times. But in the end it was a
success.

Perspective of Culture

1. CULTURAL RELATIVISM
EXPLANATION:
Its not judging a culture, but trying to understand it on its own terms. Cultural
relativism helps us to understand that there is not "one right way" to approach many of the
aspects of daily living and that respect should be given to those ways which work for other
cultures/societies, though they don't necessarily work for ours.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Rancho finally face Viru about the way of teaching he implemented in Imperial
College of Engineering. He explain to him that the professors are teaching the students how to
have a good grades instead of teaching engineering. He point out that This is college, not a
pressure cooker.

2. ETHNOCENTRISM

EXPLANATION:
It refers to the tendency to view one's own culture as the norm. There is a
tendency to assume one's culture is superior to others.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Rancho imagines Pia riding her motorcycle wearing the traditional wedding gown
with a helmet on. Also on the movie, there are some singing and dancing reflecting the
traditions and culture of India.

3. CULTURE SHOCK
EXPLANATION:
It is the term we use to describe the feelings of confusion and uncertainty that are
experienced when you come into contact with a culture that is vastly different from your
own.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
After entering the Imperial College of Engineering Rancho was surprised on the
tradition of the college where all freshmen will line up wearing only their underwear and the
authority will mark their butt cheeks with a stamp, by doing that there are officially student
of the college. Rancho refuses this, so he moved ahead to his room where he made an antiurinating machine.

Factors for Development of Culture

1. HUMAN BIOLOGICAL NEEDS AND DRIVES

EXPLANATION:
Drive is the fundamental drives which govern and affect human behavior. They
pertain to the most basic physiological needs of man such as hunger, thirst, sex, and selfpreservation. Thus, there is an internal motivation state produced when the person is deprived
of the need for food, water, and oxygen or when these supplies are depleted.
Need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
All of the students, especially Raju, of the Imperial College of Engineering want
to graduate on time that they do everything they can in order to pass.
2. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
EXPLANATION:
It refers to the totality and integration of an individuals mental and thought
processes.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Ranchos knowledge is beyond incomparable to the other students of Imperial
College of Engineering. He apply what he learned and he believe that we dont need
memorize things and say it word by word on the book but to express what we learn from the
book in our own words.

3. PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

EXPLANATION:
Mans physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual needs are nurtured by his
social environment. It has been stated that need is the mother of invention.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
During the time that Raju and Farhan was accompanied by Rancho. They learn to
believe in themselves and not relying on someone or something and believing in your heart
on what is best for you.

Perspective on Family

1. FUNCTIONALISM
EXPLANATION:
The family performs several essential functions for society. It socializes children,
it provides emotional and practical support for its members, it helps regulate sexual activity
and sexual reproduction, and it provides its members with a social identity. In addition,
sudden or far-reaching changes in the familys structure or processes threaten its stability and
weaken society.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
Farhans family worked hard in order to send him to the Imperial College of
Engineering. His father sacrifices a lot for his son that they put their only AC in the room of
their son in order for him to comfortably study.
Rajus family, as all we know are less fortunate, her mother acts as the light and
foundation of the house. Her mother worked in order to buy the medical drugs that her sick
husband need.

2. CONFLICT
EXPLANATION:
The family contributes to social inequality by reinforcing economic inequality and
by reinforcing patriarchy. The family can also be a source of conflict, including physical
violence and emotional cruelty, for its own members.
SITUATION/ SCENE:
There was an argument between Pia and his father Viru about Pia seeing Rancho.
Pia also include that their brother was dead because of the pressure that Viru gave to him
because Viru wanted his son to be an engineer even if it is not his son want to be.