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Watch 2 and Half Men or Amazing Race television show through a sociologist's eyes. While watching the show, imagine how one or more of the major theorists would explain the show's situation or story.

· a brief synopsis of the show and an explanation of the events based on a sociological perspective (social conflict, structural-functional, or symbolic interactionism). You may choose to focus on a specific scene or character from the show instead of the entire program.

· State from which perspective you are viewing, and provide specific examples from the show that relate to the basic tenets of your selected perspective.

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The solution provides a sociological analysis of one of the episodes of Charlie Sheen's TV Show '2 and a half Men'.

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The show, aired on November 8, 2010 was about the connection of the sons with the mother, created in situation by the teen. The subplot of Charlie's alcoholism is dealt with in a humorous manner, much like one of the two ways society addresses such matters.

The premise of the episode I am dealing with concerns the familial relationship between the two very different sons, one a womanizing partier and the uptight divorced son, and their distant mother. The men have been placed in a position of having a ...

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