The theme of the documentary “The Corporation” focuses

on the nature of corporations today on how they influence

change, damage culture, society, and our living environment

on a daily basis all in pursuit of larger profits. The

producers of the film explore the views and actions of

corporations by interviewing people from all sides of the

debate. The word “corporation” is defined as a group of

individuals working together to accomplish a goal, that

goal being making themselves and shareholders as much money

as possible in the shortest amount of time possible.

In the movie, they showed the CEO of Pfiser walking

around outside of the Pfiser building greeting all the

bystanders commuting to work, walking to and from the

subway. I gathered that this corporation came into this

once low-income, crime driven neighborhood and turned

things around. In a way, Pfiser came in and forced the

residents of the neighborhood to ditch their traditional

lifestyles and live a more rational one. It’s this

characteristic of a corporation that shows that they are

callous to the feelings of others and don’t feel guilty

about disturbing already existing, functioning societies.

These corporations come in, repeatedly lye and con their

ways into these neighborhoods all because the financial

outcome for them is expected to be good. The sociological

theorist Max Weber believed that the dominance of

practical, theoretical and formal rationalization processes

in modern Western societies implies immense consequences

for the type of person likely to live in these societies.

Another example from the documentary was the Nike sweatshop

they tried to investigate. The Nike Corporation opened a

manufacturing plant in a very poverish country and took

advantage of the people by providing low wages and