The Boondock Saints movie exhibits and demonstrates many possible causes and reasons for social deviance. One example of this is shown in the Subjective view of deviance through a Constructionist Theory. The Subjectivist believes that a deviant person is a conscious, feeling, thinking subject and that one should understand the experience of that person. From a Constructionist perspective, deviants are actively seeking meanings in the deviant activities. The brothers in the movie are seeking meaning from their killing. They believe that they are on a mission from God, and that they will be protected and blessed for doing this. The brothers in the movie are a good study on mass murder. While they are not murdering everyone at exactly the same time in the same place, they are doing it in a cult-like sort of way. They believe that they are on a mission from God, to kill all criminals in Boston. They believe that they are following a direct order from God, much like what certain cults believe. Most of their murders are also pre-meditated. Perhaps the biggest factor in why these brothers murder can be attributed to the theory of Subculture of Violence. Subculture of violence states that those who are poor or less fortunate are more likely to engage in violent acts, such as murder and rape. This is attributed to their social standing, and their inability to get out of the lower social classes. The actual cause of violence in these situations is poverty and social inequality. While the brothers are not lashing out at those who are significantly richer than them, they are lashing out at those who are more powerful than them. They are also lashing out at those who make others poor and impoverished. Last but not least, one can also look at the brothers’ acts as acts of terrorism. These murders are not terrorism towards the general populace, but towards those who are criminals, and to those who might become criminals.
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
“It is your evil that will be sought by us.” This is exactly what Connor and Murphy set out to do. Fueled by their religion, they set out to rid Boston of evil. The twin brothers seem to be unstoppable. One F.B.I. agent is going to make it his job to stop them. The Boondock Saints is a movie about religion, family, and vigilante justice.
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
The commitment showed by the Triangle Terror group was ever evident as stated in a quote by an agent on the case. “They kept going, that’s how committed they were to jihad and how right they thought they were about their obligation to kill non-Muslims.” Starting with this quote shows the seriousness and danger posed by this terror group. Daniel Patrick Boyd is the focus of this
There is not one single theory or motive that causes one to commit a life of deviance. One who lives out a deviant life has interdependent motives such as the environment, access to means, and their upbringing. Fox Butterfield's work All God's Children outlines this notion through the depiction of the Bosket family and the focus on Willie. Four theories that are both interdependent on one another as well as motives for the deviant outcome of Willies life are the social disorganization theory, labeling theory, social process theory, and social control theory.
Menace II Society, a film about a young Black man who has lived the “hustler” lifestyle and is struggling to leave it, is a perfect example of deviance as the main character, Caine Lawson, and the characters around him violate many of society’s norms. Throughout the film, the characters swear incessantly, carry around guns and drugs as most people would carry around cell phones, commit street crimes, especially burglary and mugging, on a regular basis, and beat and kill people unscrupulously. The following quote captures just how deviant Caine and the other characters in this film were, “[Caine] went into the store just to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. It's funny like that in the hood sometimes. You never knew what was gonna happen, or when” (Albert Hughes). Why would Caine consider these crimes “funny”, or rather, so insignificant? What caused Caine to become so deviant? The answers to such questions were woven into the plot of the film and will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
The media fail to acknowledge and educate the public about the relationship between the two, which in turn fails to stop the men from engaging in violent activities. For example, after a series of school shooting at Jonesboro, Pearl, and Columbine in late 1990’s (whom the perpetrators were all young schoolboys), media de-gendered the gendered nature of the events; the documentary shows newspaper headlines speaking of “youth violence,” and of “kids killing kids,” not “boys killing girls and boys”. By refusing to see violence as a gender-related issue, the media reinforce the existing norm of “boys=violence”. It is also important to note how the perpetrators of the shootings saw themselves bullied by the popular Jock Culture that celebrated toughness and muscularity, and shot the guns as the means of heightening their social status. (The perpetrator of Pearl Shooting stated that “I killed people because they were mean to me… murder is gutsy and daring.”) Not only the media reinforces the violent masculinity image, it creates a dominant peer culture that pressures the boys to use violence to assert their manliness. Media, hence, both creates a subset of and reinforces the existing violent masculinity
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There exists conflicting theories among sociologists in the area of determining why a person is considered to be a deviant, and the reasons behind why he or she has committed a deviant act. From a positivistic perspective, deviance is based on biological or social determinism. Alternatively, from a constructionist perspective, deviance is created and assigned by society. Both perspectives seek to give a theory for why a person may become known as deviant. Although they both view similar acts as deviant, the basic differences between positivists and constructionists theories are clear.
Terrorists are evil people and Dzhokhar and his brother are evil terrorists too. Dzhokhar is also one of the first terrorist sentenced to death since 9/11. Dzhokhar is the perfect definition of a terrorist because he harmed and killed people over religious aims. He attacked Boston unexpectedly during the marathon and left devestation upon the city. Terrorists attack people to attain political or religious
In the movie “Glory”, it took place during the American Civil War. It talked about how Colonel Shaw was the one of the first to lead an all African American troop. He was to lead them, and train them to be ready to fight in combat. Even though many didn’t like the idea, Shaw took the initiative forward. He wasn’t judging them for the color of the skin but by the type of adroitness that they were able to acquire in fighting in the Civil War. Throughout the whole movie all of the white officials didn’t want to accept that an all-black regiments were able to fight during the war causing many disruptions. They theorize that it was inappropriate for them to fight, because they were seen as subordinate and weren’t up to the specifications that the
Family members and friends use the “deviant” person to make moral lessons out them. They say “Don’t be like so and so or you are going to end up like that.” Violence becomes recreated into the lives of those mourning people who have been marked as “deviant.” The reason is people blame themselves for not being able to straighten out their deviant behavior or to make them see that their purpose was so much more. The problem was that so much more meant to adhere to the “American dream,” something unrealistic for many. People are put in between two walls, mourning the characteristics of a person who is seen as no good yet devaluing the person’s life because of those same characteristics that they miss. It is hard to recognize that we constantly do this amongst the death of our loved ones and we constantly set others as examples of what not to be. This is violent because we are teaching ourselves and others that some lives are not worth
In the media, prisons have always been depicted as a horrible place. The film, The Shawshank Redemption, is a prime example that supports the media 's suggestions about prison life. In the film we are familiarized with Andy Dufresne, who is a banker that is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. While trying to both remain discreet and find his prison identity, he assists Ellis Boyd 'Red ' Redding, a peddler, and Brooks Hatlen. In his attempt to fit into the rough prison subculture, Andy strategically starts a business relationship with the captain Captain Bryon Hadley and Samuel Norton. The film gives an insider 's look at various aspects of prison life. These aspects include prison culture; explicitly, guard subculture and inmate subculture.
One of America’s favorite pastimes is watching TV. Watching TV is not one of my favorite pastimes, but when I watch TV I’m usually watching reality TV shows. Duck Dynasty was my go to show when it was airing. It was aired on A&E network for 11 seasons. Duck Dynasty is an all time favorite show because of the family business, its family oriented, and the encouraging word you receive at the end of each show.
In the movie Glory the director was Edward Zwick and the genres were biography, drama, and history. This movie started off with the creation of a completely black army and they had to get trained and in shape, so they will be ready for battle. At first they don’t have anything, because no one thinks they deserve to have the good shoes, pants, coats and hats. After Col. Gould Shaw takes captain of this all black army he demanded for the head commander to give this small group nice uniforms just like all the rest. The group eventually gets asked to fight in a little battle against something like a militia. Following this battle they become the infantry unit to go in and distract the people inside Fort Wagner until back-up can arrive but this