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.
You did a great job picking out two examples from your life that show sociology! I have a good mental picture of the in-group you describe (which could also be an interest group as they all like football) :)
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