Monday, December 13, 2010

When It Goes Off....

There was riot that wanted to hurt someone. They ran up and down streets yelling and making problems. They believe Sammy is the killer even though it wasn't fully proven in court. That's why he isn't with them because they will hunt him down. Robert got into a fight with  a police man because he was trying to mind his own business while the cop came in a disturbed him. The policeman was going to whip him and take him in. The two different sides were going against each other and someone told him to watch out for knives. Someone from each side needed to cross the street for it to be violent.

I think group think occurs majorly in these types of situations because they dont want to be left out and people try to convince others it's right.

Monday, December 6, 2010

12/6

All of a sudden I saw sociology when I went to my cousins college. She showed me where her friends were and you can see all the different groups sitting outside in the arcade area. I noticed the in-group they were all the football players and other jocks laughing and being dumb. My cousins group of friends seemed like a primary group because they were so close and all shared common interests.

When I was watching Criminal Minds, and Law and Order I was noticing the different kinds of deviance. One episode really stuck with me; there was a man who was kidnapping young women and they were trying to figure out who it was. During the episode the were questioning someone while he was smoking a pack of cigarettes and was underage but they didn't take him in because they were dealing with a murder case. I thought back to that worksheet that we did when we decided if it was or wasn't crime. He was breaking the law by underage smoking but it wasn't harming anyone else, so it was being deviant more than committing a crime.