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Ethology: Theoretical Approach In Sociology

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A. Ethromethology- theoretical approach in sociology based on the belief that you can discover the normal social order of a society by disrupting it. In a way, the gang members in this documentary are ethromethologists. The typical job of an ethromethologist is to disrupt social norms so they can study more about society and how they react in certain situations. In a much greater deal, this is what MS13 does. MS13 wants to get their name out there so they can expand and be the most powerful gang in history. A way to reach the screens of millions of televisions and the ears of millions of influential, lonely people is to cause extreme social disrupt. The last thing gangs have on their mind is to “research and study the normal social order”, …show more content…

Could your peers get you to harm someone? The people in this gang need a to feel a sense of belonging due to the fact that they have never had that feeling before. They want to stay with and almost impress the gang members of MS13 because they want to make them proud. They consider it to be one big family. The peer pressure starts immediately when new members enter the group. Their first task is to shoot someone. If they can’t perform the task they are killed. Not only do they have pressure from their “peers” to kill someone, but they also have that threat that if they go against anything they are told, the outcome could be grim. I think that 80% of the MS13 members aren’t as much of menaces as they let on. There is no way that that many people can be so sinister to just go around killing people. They are being brainwashed by the actual psychologically illogical people who believe that all of this is a good idea. The peer pressure has convinced these people that they basically run the world and can do whatever they want with no consequences in the end. They’ve convinced each other that prison is “finishing school”. MS13 is justifying everything they do by looking to their peers for advice or to see what they’re doing. The whole gang is a domino effect of corrupt acts. Once one man is hated in the gang, everyone turns against him until he dies. Enemies aren’t born; MS13 is told who …show more content…

How are we influencing this group of guerillas? In this documentary, it shows the FBI performing a sting operation, resulting in the capturing and deportation of almost two hundred MS13 members. You would think that would be a strike against the gang, but this couldn’t have worked better for the posse. Not only did sending the criminals back to their home country result in hundreds of deaths of innocent people, but it spread the word of the gang. Now they have gang members all of the United States of America and several other South American countries. This is almost like a big, more serious episode of Tom and Jerry. We are chasing after MS13 doing everything in our power to get them off the streets and end them but every single time we attempt their demise, it ends up benefitting them and backlashing on us. Taking it down to a much less grand scale, American authorities are constantly throwing MS13 members in jail, so much so that they are taking over entire prisons in America. You wouldn’t believe it, but this is somehow benefitting them also. MS13 has changed the word prison into finishing school. Of course they look forward to getting out, but only so they can preach their word of MS13 on the street. Jail doesn’t only teach them more about survival and killing, but makes them more respected on the streets. Once you exit jail you are seen as a higher power, threat, and

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