While the first review was for the most part a technical exercise of reading, understanding, and critiquing a social science book, the second review is more of a creative assignment.  As a result, the guidelines for the assignment won't be too specific;  feel free to improvise, try to make it interesting, and don't be afraid to be "wrong".

The second review should be a 3-4 page, double-spaced paper applying sociological concepts that we have learned in class (or in your first review) to an artistic work, whether it be a novel, a short story, a poem, a film, or a tv show(a particular episode or the show in general).  As suggested above, this is necessarily somewhat vague.  Your review could be entirely internal to the story or it could be linked to the historical era when it was published.  It can focus on the author/director's view or on a character's view.

Some concepts that might be useful to remember (decidedly not an exhaustive list) as you're thinking about your review:

McLeod's mapping of subjective impressions of structure onto objective structures
Mechanical and organic solidarity
weak and strong ties and their uses
Merton's analysis of culture and structure in the US
Individualism/"freedom" vs Community
Cross-cutting cleavages and pluralism
Primary and secondary groups
Balance theory
Roles and role structures

Ideally, your review should be coherent and flow nicely instead of a disjointed list (or a bunch of disconnected paragraphs) of all the ways concepts from class fit your subject.

Though I don't want to influence too much the subject of your review, here are some things, off the top of my head, that I would love to review.  Please don't choose one of these just to make me happy;  you're probably much more likely to write a good review of something you're really interested in instead of something I know about.
 
 
 

Literature	Films and TV	CD's
T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"	"The Truman Show"	Any Public Enemy
Ayn Rand, Anthem (or other)	"Modern Times"	Sonic Youth, "Daydream Nation"
Orwell, Animal Farm	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Any old blues or bluegrass album
Orwell, 1984	Any Michael Moore film	The Clash, "London Calling"
William Gibson, Neuromancer	Seinfeld	Uncle Tupelo, "Still Feel Gone"
Almost any Horatio Alger	"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"	Marilyn Manson
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"	"Roots"	Any Velvet Underground

Good luck and feel free to run ideas by me.