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The Wire Mcnulty: Chapter Summary And Analysis

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In this episode of The Wire McNulty gets 30 more days for the wire tap. Judge Phelan was taking out of the race for judge because he helps McNulty. When listening to the wiretap the unit is able to find out where the stash house is located. They take the trash from the trash house and find drugs and other illegal items. Orlando is a gang member who owns the strip club and is caught by police for selling drugs. The Barksdale police unit uses Orlando to arrest some of the drug dealers. Kima goes along with Orlando as his girlfriend. Instead Orlando has a hit out for him, which ends up getting him killed and Kima severely wounded. In the chapter of Social Inequality Forms, Causes, and Consequences discuss reasons for social inequality. There are structural …show more content…

Social stratification, social networks or occupation are all structural reasons for inequality. Individual’s talents, education and class can all affect inequality. Sociologists have different theories for why structural and individual occur and the reasons behind them. In The Wire the gang members range from young to old. Generations follow after one another into the same life style. D’Angelo followed his uncle Avon Barksdale into gang lifestyle. The younger children who are in the pit want to rise up and make it into the towers and have more power. Theories of social reproduction are discussed in the chapter about how inequality is reproduced over and over in everyday lives. Hurst states, “class structure reproduces itself generation after generation” (Hurst 250). D’ Angelo is following after his uncle and could continue down the family line. Kima Greggs is the

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