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After reading the article “The Saints and the Roughnecks” by William J. Chambliss it was surprising to me how two groups of kids are treated drastically differently yet appear to make the same amount of mischief. Though I can see how this happened. By this I mean the Saints were able to manipulate people because when the public is asked about their view on the Saints they said they were, “well dressed, well mannered, and had nice cars (Chambliss 3).” While when asked the public was asked to give their opinion on the Roughnecks the answer was the opposite of the saints. As I was reading the article I could easily tell that with the Saints advantages they are able to get away with most of the pranks. For examples, in the article it says, “The Saints had access to automobiles and …show more content…
I didn’t dislike article but the part that really stood out to was near the end when talked about how most of the Saints graduate while the Roughnecks only two of them graduated. This made me wonder if the groups were switched would the members of the Roughnecks actually go to college and if the Saints were the ones percieve poorly by the community would they have even gone to college. This article relates to sociology because it deals with differential justice which is the difference in the way social control is exercised over different groups (Schaefer 171). In this case, it's the Saints and the Roughnecks since the Saints are perceived as the good group while Roughnecks have a bad reputation but still get into the same amount of mischief. Another is conformity which is going along with peers--individuals of our own status who have no special right to direct our behavior (Schaefer 161). This is shown throughout the article because they believe the Saints would be the ones who become successful while the Roughnecks are pretty much be the
The police would frequently aggravate the Roughnecks to see if they can get a reaction from them. They would falsely accuse the Roughnecks of doing something illegal, like loitering, and threaten to arrest them. If the Roughnecks were around where something illegal took place, the police would arrest
This understanding marks the last shift in the essay. Steele is more sure of himself and his solution in this portion than earlier on in the text. This is perceived through diction like “we must” and “necessity” (610-611), these imperative words develop a strong opinion. This adds to the argument because an audience will tend to adhere to someone who is confident in themselves and what they are saying. Steele’s solution entails that people must begin to individualize themselves. As mentioned earlier, the black community became a singular people and although unification can be a positive idea, with unification comes division, which leads to seclusion. This is because unification is created by a group sharing a common trait, however, there will always be those that do not have this trait and that is where division occurs and eventually seclusion is created. For this reason, Steele encourages his audience to move beyond “Race-as-identity”. He explains that individualization can be beneficial because it prevents general associations from being formed and without these associations people will feel less compelled to conform to them. Moreover, he wishes to rid society of the victim-focused black identity because it “encourages the individual to feel that his advancement depends almost entirely on that of the group…[and] reimposes limitations that can have the same oppressive effect” (610). Writing “On Being Black and Middle Class” was Steele’s way to work through this issue that society has. Steele clarifies the issue and comes to the conclusion that the contradictory norms of being black and being middle class puts a strain on those who are both and the only way to lift this burden is for all of society to focus less on victimization and concentrate more on
What is/are the social problem(s) that the author is discussing in this book? Why did it/they develop?
I use the "as a whole" because her book can bounce back and forth in time from chapter to chapter, but as a reader, you can see the overall change from the early 20th century into the 1970s. McGuire begins her book with a prologue describing the brutal raping of Recy Taylor in 1944. She chooses to title each chapter (with the exception to chapter seven)with a "quote" from a repressed black female. Chapter one, "They 'd Kill Me If I Told", provides the reader with a background of Rosa Parks, the lead investigator for the NAACP, (not just a tired old woman with sore feet on a bus), who is put in charge of investing the Taylor case. Chapter one also introduces the reader to the power (or lack of) nation-wide media exposure. Chapter two, " Negroes Everyday Are Being Molested", shows the power of respectability in choosing who to aid, and exposes the reader the ridiculous (but unfortunately, very real in the eyes of the white male) concept of "eye rape (62)." Chapter three, "Walking in Pride and Dignity", goes more into the ideal of respectability, and its role in the movement for black women. Chapter four, "There 's Open Season on Negroes Now", analyzes the case of the "Kissing Game" and discusses the troubles with segregation due to both races having interest in Rock 'n ' Roll no matter the color of the musician.
Society expects success from the Saints so the Saints showed successful behavior to the authority. The evidence shown is why did the community, the school, and the police react to the Saints as though they were good, but to the Roughnecks as they were trouble. The police let them go every time they got into trouble because they were the “good” kids. Their parents could pay their way out of things. Being labeled the good ones to the boys it made the things they did good and they did not think any of it was bad, that it was just for fun and a laugh to the boys. The labeling theory that was for the Roughnecks was the bad boys that did everything bad and that they did for fun but really they were doing it to survive. The Society expected mediocre work and showed that, that is what they expected. The evidence that shows this is the Roughnecks as though they were tough, young, criminals who were headed to trouble. Through the people they saw them as bad and they just kept doing bad things because that was was expected of them. They did not expect nothing less though they all together had a C average so they were not too bad. They just needed understanding of what they were going through. The teachers understood why one of the
From the article, Davis’s main argument is that the mainstream society has developed the perception the black men are to blame for the
Going to a Carolina Panthers football game and it was great! I used sight, hearing, smelling, feeling, and tasting when I went. Out of all the NFL games I have been to, this was by far my favorite. There was so much to do when I went there.
Connecting Sociology to situations that arise in everyday life has become easier and easier as i have progressed through Intro to Sociology this semester. When choosing what book I was going to analyze for my report, I chose Methland by Nick Reding. It details the quote “death and life of an american small town” through the perspective of those involved in the epidemic of the production of methamphetamine’s in the rural town of Oelwein Iowa. Despite the odds of a poor, small, and rural town in Middle America, Oelwein climbed to the top of the economic ladder with a multi million dollar drug franchise spread throughout the 1990’s. The midwest suffered greatly in the 1980’s with the downfall of the agricultural business in the United States. Soon drug dealers started flocking to these seemingly desolate towns in rural America to safely distribute their product. With the loss of jobs due to the farming downfall, many residents of Oelwein were seeking work and pay in anyway they could find. This is what started the official meth epidemic. Reding spent 4 years in his hometown of Oelwein Iowa to gain insight on the production and consumption of methamphetamine’s in this small town and also shines a spotlight on the problems of meth in this country today. But ironically, the comparison in this story of how the production and consumption of meth seemed to be driving this small town further into extinction, it also brought it back to life. Despite the destruction methamphetamines caused in Oelwein Iowa, the epidemic also brought the town back to life in a way that is irreversible. The highlight of the division of social class and who is able to climb up the social ladder is themed throughout the entire novel.
Society tends to judge people unfairly based on how they look, and after one of Dudes' transformations into a normal suburban kid, people changed their perspective, even though he was the same person inside. The colliding cultures in this story were the anarchists and the normal' people judging and protesting them. The collision in this story is actually physical. No matter what perspective you had while reading this story, it really made you think about the many different sides of people. I think that being able to relate this so closely to situations that I see everyday, is one of the reasons I enjoyed this story so much.
The Rough Riders Towards the end of the nineteenth century, William McKinley defeated Grover Cleveland for the presidency and there was a huge push for the United States of America to expand beyond its continental boarders. (Lorant, p. 281) With an enthusiasm for a new urge for international Manifest Destiny, the American people wanted to match Europe^s imperial power by making America^s weight felt around the world. (Boger p.714) The extent of expansionism was felt in the Pacific Ocean with the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and Guam, but the most famous example of Americas enthusiasm for international assertiveness came in
In each of the short stories that I read, the authors discussed a particular group of people, either grouped by their race, or chosen identity be it religion, personal beliefs or in the case of Understanding Comics (McCloud) a person’s chosen form of expression. Each author explored how mainstream society as a whole, often have a preconceived perceptions of what a person is like, based on the group that they have placed them in. For example in Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth, Gates opens up by explaining that blacks in current society can no longer be thought of as one mass of peoples, due to changes in society in the last decade that have brought about a greater divide in values between lower income and middle class income blacks, than there is between middle class blacks and whites (48). However society as a whole still insists on grouping people by their ethnicity – and perceiving them all as if they have the same needs, goals and background which simply is not the case.
In Beasts of the Southern Wild it quickly becomes apparent in the Bathtub family isn’t just your Father, it’s everyone. Working together to thrive in a harsh wet land so much to the point that almost every night it another holiday, another celebration. However in this land if you want to thrive you have to have a strong will. Most lose their wills before the storm hits. While Hushpuppy grows stronger, Winks fades.
Being excluded from within the economy, cause a lot of self-esteem damage on the individual they, then starts to experience isolation, because of their criminal pass which gives them a stigma for life. Also being invisible within society not being able to get a job after criminal background check is done caused one to end up in poverty and cant provide for their family. Being an ex convict, trying to live an honest life and still struggling to make ends meet can lead to a relapse, which makes them go back to do the same thing to provide because they have no other means period. Race, however was the core part within the book, both Blacks and whites were used to show the differences in leniency being shown for them especially in the Mass Incarceration system, For example, Alexander explain that “ Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African American constitute 80 to 90 percent of all drugs offenders sent to
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In conclusion, the book does help shed light on the issues affecting the young black youth and how the society views them. Poverty has always been an issue for the people in the African American community thus limiting them from achieving their goals and objectives. Some of the actions taken by black youths are because of their living conditions and their desire to want change. Helplessness pushes them to violence and