David Berreby Tribe

David Berreby’s “It Takes a Tribe” and Thomas Hine’s “Goths in Tomorrowland”, both describe situations of groupings among people. Berreby’s comes from the more biological reasoning behind it and also with scientific evidence. Hine’s comes from the social aspect of the teenage lifestyle. People and teenagers specifically have always struggled with identity. Hine and Berreby both identify the fact that people put themselves in groups. The difference is Berreby claims that groups are created through subconscious; while Hine clarifies why groups are created through identity politics and alienation.
Identity is the common word throughout both of these essays. Identity plays a major role in each and everyone’s life day after day. This can be due

The subconscious plays a major role in Berreby’s piece. He states, “People team up with strangers easily” (Berreby 6-7). The conscious need of being with other people no matter who they are is very strong in the human mind, especially for an extravert. It makes humans feel the need to be in a group or “tribe”. He states that the mind pushes a person to group with others that go through the same struggles or has similar traits. They find comfort in knowing another person feels the way they do and struggles with the same issues that they struggle with. Hine differs when he says, “A Yearning to belong to a group-or perhaps to escape into a disguise” (Hine 279). The want to disguise differs from the subconscious mind putting a person in a grouping. They both think that grouping is a natural occurrence for people, but Hine’s view is more deliberate. These two pieces have the same idea but use different methods to end with the same result. This is because the audiences of the two essays are

Berreby writes to the well-educated people of America. With this he uses more resources and puts the situation of grouping in more elaborated schemes. Berreby uses scientific resources to back-up his claim of grouping being biological. The use of this helps his eduacated audience believe his claims more. The claim that teens group for security and attention made by Hine is intended for an adult that is having trouble-understanding teenagers. He uses terms and examples that are more simplistic to make this complicated situation easier to understand for a confused parent. With the audiences being somewhat similar in the way they are intended for adults, but very much different creates a different tone all together. David Berreby and Thomas Hine both have very clear and exact evidence for their essays. The biological claim made by Berreby appeals to the more educated mind to create a better understanding of “tribes” and why they occur. Hine creates a much more relatable reasoning in the readers mind. He gets his evidence from actual teenagers experiencing depression and self-image issues. Both writers make logical claims and appeal to logos, ethos, and pathos. With the use of these three things these writers claims’ are much more