Aysegul Torun Mr. Swiencicki Soc 2 Apr. 29th‚ 2013 Social Biography In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”‚ race discrimination‚ drug abuse‚ and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means
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years ago President Richard Nixon announced and declared the nation is at war‚ that war was the "War on Drugs". Nancy Reagan campaigned heavily in the fight against drug use as well; her fight was that of teaching young children the slogan of “Just Say No”. The goals of the criminal justice system in the war on drugs have been a never ending fight against the sale of illicit drugs and that of combating drug abuse. We will discuss the increased resources spent on law enforcement and rehabilitation
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times that the prison population is joined together by gang affiliation. Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) and Special Response Teams (SRT’s) were created in order to manage inmates who get into fights‚ assault staff members‚ or refuse to follow orders. Prison staff does everything they can in order to isolate gang leaders‚ label the gang members within general population for security and intelligence purposes‚ and deprogramming of the gang members. Upon entry into prison‚ inmates are classified
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and give me an answer to anything. His motto was “never give up without trying” He grew up poor in the country side of South Korea‚ and according to him was fueled with anger and jealousy at the fact that he was raised with nothing that he joined a gang at the age of 15. I guess that’s where all the tattoos came from. The last time I spoke to him‚ he was telling me the story of his younger days. To me‚ it sounded too crazy and he explained to me how he got that eye. I’ll never forget the way it
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characters as well. The book was set in the 1960’s in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ America. This book is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and his gang. Ponyboy is from a gang called the greasers. The greasers are enemies with the socs who are the rich kids. Ponyboy is good friends with Johnny Cade‚ who is also part of the gang. They get involved in a fight with the socs and murder one of them. Dally helps them to run away. They go to a place called Windrixville and hide in an abandoned church. When
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Mexico and South America. About 56% of the immigrants are from Mexico alone while the rest are distributed evenly among South American countries like Honduras‚ Panama‚ and Guatemala. Along with them they bring many different problems such as increased gang violence in the United States‚ and various drug trafficking complications. Drugs are a huge problem; many underground tunnels have been found along the border. Another problem with undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay taxes. According to
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Gang Leader For A Day Social imagination‚ “individual problems are to social problems‚ what is happening outside of one’s personal control. This relationship between individual experiences and public issues is the sociological imagination” (Our Social World Pg9). The book that we read “Gang Leader for a Day” by Sudhir Vankatesh clearly illustrates the sociological imagination. In the early part of the book we see Vankatesh trying to give surveys to a gang to try to understand how they feel about
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Hinton’s The Outsiders Bad decisions lead to regret later on. In The Outsiders‚ There are two gangs The Socs‚ and The Greasers‚ neither groups get along. The Socs are rich‚ and they drive nice cars‚ the greasers are opposite they are poor‚ and drive beat up old cars. One night two Greasers Johnny‚ and Ponyboy get into a fight with The Socs. Johnny ends up killing a soc. Johnny‚ and Ponyboy get money from a gang member‚ and hide in a church. The church caught on fire when the two boys went out for lunch
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The films Romero‚ El Norte‚ and Sin Nombre show the audience in justice within a gang and countries such as‚ El Salvador‚ Mexico and Guatemala. The films also shows how the lower class or the indigenous organize and fight for fairness and dual rights. In the film ’Sin Nombre’ gangs are seen as the power and guiding source in people lives and try to control members. We also see in the films how the ruling class seek to take control of the lower class and violence is often times the end solution to
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occasions positions the gang almost as victims‚ as if they never initiated any of the problems they took part in and they just found themselves caught up in them by accident. For example‚ when looking at the case of Anthony Hines’s murder‚ neither Jai nor Koby give any detail on their part of the story‚ saying “the only people they had to tell the story to was the jury”. The fact that they chose not to talk in depth about the event‚ whether it’d be to stick with the “gang moral code” or not‚ may
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