Sociology

Franciny Rochet

Sept.20.2016

Soc 206-05

Hw #4

1.Ms. Gharaii has a very rich perspective such as that she doesn’t like to affiliate herself with people who are deemed poor because she has this bias idea that they are savages. For this reason she denied the fact that she had question Hojjat’s daughter Somayeh not only because she was 7 years old but because she was the daughter of a poor family. Although Ms.Gharaii denied speaking to Somayeh if she were to admit that she did her colleagues would have thought less of her because she would be admitting that she is in fact affiliated with people who are “beneath” them. When Hojjat confronted Ms. Gharaii and told her that they were humans just like them he was refereeing to the rich ideology that people like Ms. Gharaii have in which they think that because someone is poor they live a very broken and criminal affiliated lifestyle.

2. It was a hard decision for Razieh’s not to take the blood money due to the fact that her family was in desperate need for it but because she was doubting her story and had a chance of receiving it through a lie she refused it. Razieh’s culture expects her to do what is best for her husband and her daughter with the cost of maybe committing a sin such as a lie. This conflicts with her religion because although it benefits her family to take the money receiving it through a lie would be a sin and the truth is more important than economic benefits.

3. Hojjat wants to accept this money because he is currently unemployed and his family is suffering in the economic situation that they’re in. Although this money would resolve his problems with his creditors and his loss of job his honor would be dragged across the mud due to the fact that this is blood money, he only received this money through the death of his unborn child and because his wife was working for another man without his permission.

 Both Nader and Hojjat have very different economic situation because Nader lives a very wealthy life style were he can afford a helper for his ill father and a tutor for his daughter and Hojjat and his family barely have a home to live in. Due to this Hojjat does not have the privilege to fight for what is right, because the system only awards those who have money the right to fight. He has no power and is categorized as poor and because of this justice is barely served.