Film: "The Outsiders"

The Outsiders is a 1980s melodrama, based on teenage behavior in the 1950s. The film is about two free radicals of teenagers who attend the same senior high school and live in the same town, but principal sum radically different lives. One group, known as The South-Side Socials (more coolly called socs), is the more inner(a) group. The second group, The Greasers, be the less privileged kids, who just so happen to live on the ruin side of town. These two groups have had tilt against each new(prenominal) for many years, but on one particular night, this rivalry turns deadly as one of the greasers, Johnny, stabs and kills a soc, Bob, in self-denial of his friend, Pony boy Curtis. The rivalry becomes more disgusting on both sides after the murder; the socs trying to avenge the finis of their friend; the greasers trying to get the town to understand that the socs be at fault also.

Coppolas film is a vivid portrait of how social groups can define our behavior, and how deviance and crime are viewed in relation to our social group. In the text Sociology in our Times: Second Edition, A social group is defined as a collection of two or more people who interact frequently with one another, packet a sense of belonging and have a mental picture of interdependence.



It is obvious that both the socs and the greasers care deeply for each constituent of the respective group. Towards the end of the film, as Johnny is being hospitalized for severe burns and is near death, Pony Boy tells him that he doesnt see that he could get along with out him. These boys have make such strong social bonds with one another that stock-still the thought of losing one of their group causes a severe stimulated reaction.

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