Saints And The Roughnecks: A Social Analysis

The Third Estate was itself divided into three major groups: 1. The bourgeoisie consisting of bankers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, factory owners and skilled artisans. Though some of them reached or even surpassed the wealth of nobles, they still

William J. Chambliss’s description of the Saints and the Roughnecks shows how the different social classes to facilitate the definition of some groups as deviants and others as not. In this classic study, the saints are a group of 8 white upper middle class boys on the pre-college track in Hanibal High School, who engage in truancy, drinking, wild driving, petty theft and vandalism, but managed to maintain a good image. If these youths are apprehended, the influence of their parents and the social skills of boys contributes to the interpretation that they are just engaging in youthful high jinks. The roughnecks are a group of six lower-class boys who engage in lots of fighting and stealing, who are often arrested, and whose image in the community is terrible. In Chambliss 's view, the saints behavior had at least as much potential for community harm as the behavior of the roughnecks.

Johnny, the second youngest Greaser, gets jumped by Socs, and has feared them since the incident. Johnny, the loyal gang member, gets described as the gang 's pet. Yet, he still believed in doing the right thing and was the most law-abiding kid in the group. For example, one

John Gotti: The Godfather There he goes again, racketeering and committing other horrible crimes. All of John Gotti’s life, since age twelve he has done bad actions. He was working for one of the most notorious mob families in The Big Apple.

Harper Lee conveys the theme that people lie mostly to avoid criticism by putting various characters in difficult situations.

There are 2 powers (Jack and Ralph), there are the people (boys), in those boys you see the poor (younger boys), and the rich (older boys), the good (Ralph, Piggy, Simon), and the bad (Jack and his hunters). In this chapter it is more clear for me to see the conflict between Ralph and Jack. This chapter was a bit hard for me to understand. Chapter 5 This chapter talks about the so called Beast.

If people didn't judge someone because of their skin color, there wouldn't be so many shootings involved. When people see Jus they think he is a thug but what they don't know is that he got a full scholarship to Braselton Preparatory Academy. People should never judge someone just from their skin color because you don't know who that person is and what they have gone through. You just look at a person and automatically assume that they are bad when you know nothing about them. The people that have been judged because of their skin color now know that there will always be someone to bring you down but you have to keep your head high and not look

College athletes sometimes have criminal records, but the NCAA doesn’t check them. Viliseni Fauonuku, a college athlete was one of his coach’s favorite players, but he had been arrested for two felony accounts for robbery. Yet Viliseni was offered multiple scholarships by the universities, despite his violent background. In great contrast, normal students have to go through rigorous background checks to get scholarships. This encourages athletes to break the law.

He was appointed to defend a black man named Tom Robinson for raping Mayella Ewell. Most townsfolk caught news of this and instantly began to give Atticus dirty looks and began calling him vulgar names. Atticus, is a very nice person who wants to do the right thing, and he has an opinion about people who disagree with him defending Tom Robinson. “They’re certainly entitled to think they, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions.” (120).

According to Wikipedia "Upper class is a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich" which means they are the people who are mostly wealthy and powerful. People of this social class are known because of their great influence on power and wealth. As a matter of fact, some people in the upper class are already inherited wealth and power

The West Memphis three murders are known all over the world. Three little boys brutally murdered, three high school boys wrongly accused, and sentenced to life behind bars, or death row. That’s all people know, they’re oblivious to the facts that show they weren’t the killers for the young boys. The accused boys were; Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley. At the time they were teenagers, but they were judged by the way they dressed in black, who they hung out with, and the music they listened to.

Moreover, they have to deal with acts of ethnic discrimination against people of color. Rios mentions that “many of the delinquent boys gave their peers “love” for making in school, getting good grades, and graduating”

There are also 17 medical doctors in Congress (Hutchinson, 11).” The former high-income jobs of members of Congress also allow them to garnish more wealth and have a higher earning than the public at

Constitutional Convention: The people that decided to correct the government’s problems were typically educated, well known, and rich. They had the characteristic quality of a leader. Respected, successful, and willing to fix things were other traits of the men that met at the Convention. Most of the members of the convention were lawyers and half of them had college educations, which was very rare at the time. George Washington, a well-known man, was the president, or chairman, of the Convention.

Another issue that is emphasized is the discrimination against the colored. The article says where most of the students are black they have the highest percentage in the country to have police officers in the school. One thing I would like to get more information on is what are the positive outcomes of police officers being in the schools? The article