Deviance & Control in a Feature Film `Boyz n the Hood`

Deviance is a random variable from the norm. eery issue from picking boogers in public to murdering soul is considering an suffice of divagation. There ar umpteen theories of deviation and the film Boyz in the spunk and it provides a good base for sympathy and providing real life modelings concerning aberrant behavior. The study issues app bent in the film be concerning the hear and go later oning surmise which gives insight into the char be motivateiveers red-hots. Boyz N the Hood provides m some(prenominal) examenples of the deviance and get oer theories.Deviance in statistics is the variations in what the outcomes be suppositious to be. In sociology a aberrant is a per news who isnt what he should ordinarily be. Any variation from social, cultural or religious norms loafer be deviation. In a recent book roughly deviance, Douglas (1984) has identified rape, homo familiarity and terrorism as major(ip) categories of deviance today, and his choice of these high fairy wants a recurrent concern among sociologists to link an outline of deviance with that of particular forms of sexual and untr ained behavior.Indeed, a quick glance d unrivall(a)ed the contents of whatsoever book dealings with deviance is likely to reveal an kindle in making sense of forms of sexual behavior as diverse as prostitution, tiddler abuse, homosexuality, transexualism and extra-marital sexual guessivity. Similarly with honor to violence, interest has been attestn in gang violence, rape, new-fangled delinquency, foot crackpot hooliganism and acts of terrorism. To this list of concerns, however, should be added studies looking at small-minded salient forms of deviances such as intoxi sternt dep left everyplaceence, child slightness, stuttering, and resolving use (Aggleton 1-2)M any(prenominal) of these deviations are portrayed in the photograph. The closely signifi evictt ones relate to crime, murder, sex, and alcohol and drug abuse. A lot less spe ctacular forms of deviation are likewise apparent in the word picture. One practice session of this is when Ricky urinates in one of the alleys right in the beginning his death. By studying this film fast a lot of aberrant behaviors potty be pointed at easily. John Singletons 1991 film Boyz N the Hood in the context on Ameri arouse chock cultural deviance theories presents aspects of numerous of the major theories of deviance (labeling, strain, social chink, and differential association).(Leblanc, 1998, p. 64) The major characters Tre, tres situate, Ricky and Doughboy represent different forms of deviance and find. Tres go is a mastery because he infinitely tells everyone around him to experience thinking. Tre is different than the some other mickle in the approach because his father has raised him differently. The soda tries to instill good values in his son so he stop succeed and non conform to the quit norms of his environsings. Tres pascal is in like manner progressive in social make. In one scene after the SAT exam Tres pa productions Tre and Ricky out to acquire something.He brings them to a billboard in the neighborhood and asks the two boys what they date from it. While he explains to them what gentrification a small crowd starts to surround his sermon like speech. He reckons, They emergency us to carry off ourselves the best stylus you can destroy a battalion you take their ability to reproduce themselves. This reflects the interruption lines of the photograph and the death toll concerning African the Statesns. One of out of every 21 black males will be murder in their lifetimemost will die at the leads of a nonher(prenominal) Black male. The dad destinys the nation in the neighborhood to stop cleanup for distri scarceively one other because youre doing exactly what they want you to do, you receive to think roughly your future. This reflects the wangle system and how the dad manages to keep a st rong kind with his son. The control opening states that the closer hatful are to distributively other and the stronger their bewilders they will be less likely to go. Continuously end-to-end the photo the dad talks to his son roughly everything and tries to teach him on the way of life. Another example in the impression is when the dad gives him advice about not having children at a preteen age.He says that any guy can a have a child only if raising one makes him a man. in addition after the SAT exam the dad tells the boys how the exam is biased and math is the hardly instanttion that is universally unbiased in the exam. The father son relationship is not there when it comes to Tres friends. Ricky and Doughboy are half(prenominal) comrades and there father is neer around. Doughboy is the deviant in the family whereas Ricky tries to stay forth from dread. The control theory states that people who have stronger bonds are less like to alter compared to people wh o have bleacheder bonds.The boys behavior and their future can be discovered and analyzed by both the control theory and the labeling theory. When their lives are analyzed according to the labeling theory it is loose to see why the two brothers act in a unique(predicate) way. The labeling theory states that of people are called something or told who they are often lavish shall begin to act in that manner. (Leblanc, 1998, p. 64) For example, if a child is designate a yob in inculcate veritable(a) if he has done the act one and continues to be called a bully it is quite likely that he will label to or conform to the label that has been given to him.On the other hand if a person is told that they can excel over and over again they will most like live up to those expectations. In the movie this contrast is observed amid Ricky and Doughboy. Their get under ones skin perpetually puts Doughboy great deal and praises Ricky. You aint shit, you dont do shit, and you aint never sledding to amount to shit, is one of the remarks passed by the mother to Doughboy. When we observe the first half of the movie which depicts the boys childhood it is apparent that Doughboy was not ever so a deviant. When the boys in the hood, pun intended, take away Rickys football Doughboy is appalled.The child simply wants his brother to have his ball congest. He stands up for his brother and he gets beaten up. Because of his personality type he gets into trouble. Eventually his mother starts putting him down because he is continuously getting into trouble. The labeling theory suggests that this would explain why he was in jail most of his life, deals drugs, kills people, and is eventually hit in the end of the movie. This theory also suggests that the encouragement of his mother led Ricky to have a football star and ask for a scholarship to USC. (Leblanc, 1998, p.64)In the end of the movie, Ricky dies when other guys from the neighborhood crucify him and Doughboy dies tw o weeks after avenging his brothers death. The assumption can be made that Doughboy was murdered by the people connected to his brothers murderers. When he is young he gets into trouble and starts spillage down a cunning slope because he defends his brother and when he gets old he dies trying to penalize his brothers death. When the lives of Ricky and Doughboy are observed according to the control theory we can have an even better apprehensiveness of why Ricky is the polar opposite of his brother.The control theory talks about the adjoin of strong bonds between people. Ever since Ricky is little he has had a stronger bond with the people around him. Although both the boys fathers are never present Ricky has a football that his father gave to him. When they grow up Ricky has a stronger bond with his mom and his mom favors him more. Ricky also has a girlfriend who lives in his house and a son. Ricky has reasons to not deviate. Although his premarital sexual relationship and having a child before coupling is a type of deviation he does not conform to the deviations that his brother does.At the end of the movie when Ricky is dead and Doughboy is talking to Tre he says that he has no one, no brother and no mom. He says that his mom never loved him and it was all about Tre. Doughboy and his weak bonds with the people around him led him to deviate more often. Both the labeling theory and the control theory help us pull in the lives of the brothers and how they behaved. Tres father is one of the controllers in the movie and his portrayal of a Black man who thinks is presented respectfully. He continuously teaches his son to think and stay away from deviant behavior.After Rickys death he explains to Tre that he should not go out to render revenge because that is exactly what the system is intentional to do. He tells his son that if he wants to read a man he should shoot his dad first and that it is too ill-advised to loose Tre over a paradoxical battle. His message to Tre and everyone else has always been to stop cleaning each other and pursue a life that is better. With his guidance Tre is one of the characters that is live(a) at the end of the movie and goes to college. Although Ricky gets pass judgment and has a scholarship he dies before he can even guess upon the opportunity.The other controller is Tres mother. Ever since he was young he has taught him to stick to his word and that there would be consequences if he wouldnt. He ends up spiritedness with is father because he has gotten into a troth at school and his acts have been a breech of contract with his mom. When we compare Tres and Doughboys childhood they were both involved in confrontations and physical fights as young children. The wholly thing different was that Tre had a clique of parents who were controllers and instilled strong bonds with each other. The patrol incumbent is also a controller in the movie except he presented cynically.He believes that everyon e in the neighborhood is a deviant and should die. When he comes to Tres house after a break in he tells them that the plunderer should have been shot and that he shouldnt have gotten away. He is extremely cynical and does not believe in the advancement of the people in the neighborhood. When Tre is older he is pulled over by the same guard officer although he hasnt downcast the law. The officer pulls him over out of anguish and just to see if he has been drinking, possesses any drugs or weapons. There are many acts of neutralization present in the movie when the deviants try to justify their behavior.At the sermon in front of the billboard that Tres dad gives about people killing themselves over stupid things and conforming to the system a few guys listening in try to defend their actions. They say that if someone messes with them or causes any trouble they are not going to tolerate anything and take action. They say that they will not tolerate any sort of misconduct or even a n attitude worry and resort to killing if they need to. This is later reflected in the movie when Ricky gets murdered over an argument. At a party he gets shoved in the fortify so he starts yelling at the other guys.Those guys are scared away initially by Doughboys gun alone then they come back to kill Ricky. This shows that whatever Tres dad says has a lot of truth to it and that when a deviant deviates he doesnt see it as a deviation. He sees it as an act of neutralization. He is simply standing up for himself and defending him self. He is simply justifying his cause. The prime(a) of a deviant is that he fights back each time. Every little thing such as the fictional character of an pump or an argument is reason enough to kill someone. Sometimes people deviate intentionally because they want to prove people wrong.Sometimes people deviate because they are living up to their labels. Sometimes people deviate because they dont know any better. Tres insistence on having sec with his Catholic girlfriend can be considered deviant behavior because he is going against what his parents have told him. His girlfriend gets angry with him but he does not resort to pull ahead deviations. Doughboy gets labeled a deviant from an archean age but he never fights back to clear the misconception. He continuously involves himself in activities that live upto his genius.This film seeks to chasten society. The message at the end of the movie is to stop and to create peace. The movie shows a real life depiction of what happens in the hood and how it hurts everyone living in it. It sheds light on how their behavior is affecting them negatively. They show all aspects of particular societal trends in order to create awareness among the people. The movie asks questions about traditional ways of imperious a form of deviance when it highlights the role of the police officer and the kids who try to fight deviance.The police officer just wants to kill everybody and is an extreme cynic and Ricky believes that the only way to stop another deviant is by acting the same way with him. The police officer hopes that the guy who broke in the house should have been dead and that everyone on the street is a gangster. All throughout the movie deviant behavior can be clearly spotted. The only way to normalize deviant behavior is to understand why it happens and how it happens. Young kids like Ricky all over the world end up committing crimes because of the weak bonds they have.They end up deviating from societal norms because they have been labeled a specific way. They already have a reputation and they feel that they cannot get away from it. They get down what society has labeled them and give into the norms of deviation. Kids who have stronger bonds with family and society on the other hand can easily breakaway from any childhood delinquencies they were a part of like Tre. People should understand that the labeling theory is not always negative and that it can be us ed to boost peoples morale and have positive(p) outcomes.This happened for Ricky because of the continuous support from his mom but in the end he did not live to see any of it. This is why the control theory should be implanted along with the labeling theory in a positive way. When people realize the roots of the problem only then will they be able to fix it. The movie is a message to all the people of America to realize what happens in the certain neighborhoods and how to bear off the problem. The message is to stop killing each other and to promote peace.ReferencesAggleton, P. (1987). Deviance. Society now. capital of the United Kingdom Tavistock.Leblanc, Lauraine (1998, January). Observing Reel Life victimisation Feature Films to Teach Ethnographic Methods. precept Sociology, 1, Retrieved June 16, 2008, from http//www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/stable/1318681?seq=3Singleton, J (1990). Boyz N the Hood. (movie)