All of a sudden

All of a sudden I thought about sociology when I one of my friend was talking about what happen at menards on black friday. She said someone cutted in the check out line and that started a big comotion. This goes perfectly with the topic we're now covering in sociology which is collective behavior. Collective behavior is spontaneous, wild and unpredictable which also involve a large amount of people. referring to the situation that went down at menards, the participating structure here are these visicous group of people trying to hurry up and pay for their things and here comes this guy trying to cut in line. The social strain to this is everyone is pressured into being tough and selfish because being timid on black friday doesn't pay off, literally. Police officers would be considered inadequate controls because they wouldn't be able to control this mob of people, I would be terrified being a police officer on black friday. To wrap this up, collective behavior are one of those bazare things you find fascnating scared to be apar of.

When it goes off

When it goes off is a short story about two soccer rivalries, the Manchester United and the Tottenham fans. These rivalries had so mcuh anomosity towards each other and the only thing seperating them was an ordinariy road. An ordinary road which seperated the men from the boys and symbolizes power, law, and the daredevils. Both team was suppose to venture out cross the road and to basically, ''set it off. ''  This task was obviously to big for these soccer hooligans to handle. The growth spread of generalized beliefs is when everyone believed Sammy killed the man on the escalator. structural Conduciveness happen when people stood on the table because there were no rooms left. Precipitating factor is when all fans gathered together or the game itself. Inadequate social control occured when no police officer was present when the guy got killed. Mobilization of participants for actions is when everyone was egging the narrator on to speak his mind to the police officer when he got whipped.

Groups within a group

All of a sudden i saw sociology when i was at step practice. Well, let me first begin with the new hot topic in sociology. This new unit we're focusing on groups. everyone belongs to a group because people need other people. During step practice I thought on how there are groups within a group. For instance in step practice we work on our routine to prefect it. people perceive us as a group of individuals that work together and  share a common interest. Our role is to be the loudest, funkiest, creative, original step group there is. We also reference ourselves with the other team so we can see what they're doing and how they do their ''thing'' and try to come up with a better routine, that tops theirs. This is known as a secondary group where people share common interest and are goal oriented. Though we're a group, I find myself connecting and communicating with certain people on the team. This is common because we're all in a ''secondary group,'' which is more general but we connect and vibe more with certain people, which sociologically called primary group.