Man Punches Teenage Girl !! Deviance

Yahne' Coleman

Deviance


Deviance goes against the norms of society and staying away from the normal rules of society . Deviance can range from anything like coming to class late , stealing food , fighting and even changing your daily routine . Anything from the normal is deviance . Most forms of deviance have many negative results.There's formal and informal deviance , formal is breaking the law and informal is breaking minor informed norms . We always have label theory of deviance which is a symbolic interaction perspective . Deviance in simplest form is being a rebel to the rules society has set for us to follow.

In this video the man claims he was in front of the McDonalds line and that the young girl had busted in front of him . As you can see they seem to exchanged some heavy words. He got so upset that he actually punched the girl several times in the face . She had to be in her early teens and yet that did not have any effect on him . As she failed to the floor you see a younger girl runs over to her help , he also pushed the younger girl . Once he was done beating on the young girl he grab his kids and fled the McDonalds .This is a perfect example of deviance because so many norms are being broken . He as the adult should had defuse the situation but instead he added heat to the situation by arguing with the young girl . Then he goes and puts his hands on the young girl which breaks three norms at once . Fighting for one but not just any fighting , fighting a girl and a child . He actions was deviance at its highest . Though norms are broken everyday this is an example of a formal deviance . His actions can result in jail time which is also known as a formal sanction . Being an adult he should be a leading example but instead all he did was show his younger kids that it was okay to fight and hit girls . Our generation is failing as a whole cause the people we look up to as adults are acting like kids and showing us that deviance is the norm , which is so wrong .

Bad Boys. Deviance.

Maripat McGlynn

       Deviance is anything that goes against the standards of a society or norm. Deviance varies from things such as crime and alcoholism to simply being late for class or being overweight. Deviance also varies from culture to culture. Things such as being overweight and unattractive are not accepted in the United States. But in other cultures being plump is highly regarded and wearing any kind if makeup is considered deviant. In the US we are ruled by our laws and they are what teaches our society what is deviant or accepted. For instance, murdering and stealng all have serious consequences associated with them by law. Breaking this law results in jailtime. There are times, however where something that was once deviant changes into something that is socially accepted. An example is tattoo's. Tatoo's were once considered deviant and society labeled people with tattoos as bad, immoral humans. Nowadays almost everyone in my generation has a tattoo if not a whole sleeve. It is becoming the new norm and is considered a form of art and expression. Gays and lesbians are also becoming more and more accepted into our soceity. These days the information about homosexuals are coming out and more people are speaking up about their sexuality with pride and confidence. It is becoming so common that society barely acknowledges it as abnormal anymore. Ten years ago this acceptance was dramatically different. Over the past few years  states have allowed gays and lesbians to marry. This practice will soon become a norm just like a marriage between a heterosexual couple.

 This just goes to show that society can change their norms. What was once deviant can become normal because humans have a tendency to conform. If enough people believe in something the rest of the group will follow. There are many things that will forever be deviant and not soundly moral such as murder. There is a place in this world for social control and consequences for deviant behavior but there are plenty of things in our society that we do not accept that should be recognized. Although there is no law against being overweight it is socially unacceptable. Most people will say that they don't mind whether someone is overweight or not but subconsciously people in the United States view it as a very bad thing. Its can even be worse than a young adult not attending college. That focus on the body being more important than anything else is severely detrimental to our society and its inhabitants  psyche's.

Deviance is in every society around the world. Social control will always keep certain deviant behaviors at bay. But there are a number of issues that come with labeling certain things as deviant. Some people who have committed a crime get a label as a bad person and could possibly take on that role creating more acts of deviance. There is a real stigma associated with deviance therefore people need to be more aware and open minded when it comes to their society. Not everything is how you see it.

Girls will be girls

Alexis Ortiz

Deviance is based upon an individual choice to not conform and be disobedient according to the guidelines set by society. According to author Richard Schaefer deviance is behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group of society. Each society has a set of norms that we are supposed to follow, when an individual makes the conscious choice to go against those norms they are termed deviant. While deviance is frowned upon is it possible that as a society we expect this kind of behavior? If we expect this kind of behavior does it make it easier for deviants to fall through with that expectation. Watching the news maybe depressing, however when there is violence and high-profile cases the interest of the people and the demand of the inquiring mind maximizes.

Back in November and possibly still today, a group of young girls attending a middle school in Detroit have been utilizing the girls bathroom as their fighting grounds. They have decided to turn violence into some sort of game where the rules require each pair to fight for thirty seconds. The two girls shown in the video become so violent that they fight past the 30 seconds. You can see the one girl getting her head bashed into the concrete ground on the bathroom floor, while the one who is taping the fight finds the sight amusing. This is a trend that is being followed in various schools with different cultural backgrounds. In an interview given by Dr. Phil the female who gets her head bashed into the concrete claimed that she did not want to do it, she just did not want to feel left out and feared being called a punk or heartless. These terms ring very true and heavy for these girls and they take it seriously.

Deviance in The Worst Form: Murder

Submitted by: Samantha Mesa

          Deviance is anything that violates socially established norms or rules set by society. Norms are a set of standards that people follow that has been generally written or understood by society. Deviance can be a tricky matter because sometimes one thing can be seen as normal in one culture and deviant in another. An example would be getting a tattoo. In some cultures, it can be viewed as a sign that you’re of low class or have been to prison. In others, it can show tribal lineage, political/social status, or even personal strength. One of the most popular examples of deviance could be murder. 

         In December of 2009, Susan Powell went missing from her home in Utah. Police had been investigating her disappearance for a few months, and even had a prime suspect, her husband, Josh Powell. While enduring countless interviews and interrogations, Powell continued to deny any involvement in his wife’s disappearance. He eventually lost custody of his two children to Susan’s parents, and the children seemed to be happy about the decision. One day when a social worker was on her way to bring the boys to their father’s, the boys decided to run away of her and went into of Powell’s house. He immediately locked the door and wouldn’t let the social worker inside of the house. What happened after would disturb anyone with children. Powell proceeded to attempt to murder his children  with a nearby hatchet and then lit his house on fire. Authorities later found that Powell had planned the entire thing and had even left numerous voice mails to family members stating that he couldn’t live without his boys and said, “sorry, goodbye” at the end of all his messages. There is no word yet of whether or not Susan Powell is considered dead but investigators say the case is still open. 

         What Josh Powell did was extremely deviant. Not only did he kill his sons, and possibly kill his wife, he killed himself. Murder is seen as a deviant act and so is suicide. Killing a person from your own family is also something that is deviant because family members are part of you. Powell committed formal deviance, which is when laws are involved and he violated them. It's hard to say what will eventually happen with this case but hopefully some kind of justice is served.

McDanaldization of Education

By To-Yin Cheng
Many people know McDanaldization has invaded our society for a long time. Indeed, it becomes a habit in our daily life. Nobody needs to help us take our money out from the bank, we use an ATM machine.  We use self-help machines to scan our food when we go to grocery store. We take our seat and throw out the trash by our own in the fast food store. It seems normal for us because we have already gotten used to it. It even becomes a main wave in the entire world. According to sociologist George Ritzer, McDonaldization is the process of rationalization which means a sociological term that simply means the substitution of logically consistent rules for traditional rules. In the beginning, it occurs when a culture possess the characteristics of McDonalization. However, it is hard to believe our education had already McDanaldiz. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/files/2010/11/students_1485569c.jpg

                In "The McDonaldization of Society", George Ritzer point out four components of McDonaldization. There are efficiency, calculability, predictability and control. Unfortunately, it happens in our education system.

In university, it always people always concerned about quantity more than quality, students like to compare the number of pages in the research paper, the number of credit they got. Students often skip the quality of what they learn. It is kinds of sad that no one really knows what they write and remember what they took in the course. After they finish the semester, most of the memorize knowledge will be given back to the professor.  For the professor, they have the calculability of the number of book they publish for a year. In facts, there are lots of parts written by the professor's students rather than the professor. Moreover, standardized exams make even essay test very predicable; the same subject uses the same book with the same multiple choice question in the exam. The departments have the guideline for the professor of what topic should they teach in course (control). It is efficient to evaluate students in the exact same way.  It is really hard to define what is in a student’s mind, for example, if they have some incredible thought. The standardized exam may hide their talent. If you enter in a room with no door, no matter where you go, you are going to stay in the same room. People always feel safe about the predictability, because it is someone forcing you the think about certain things but not getting you think about it in your own way. There will be no other exceptional thought. Also, some unique course had been cut out and replace to some general course to get more effective by the outcome.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slfcBbS2dsk

Although predictability has some strong points, ultimately is fails. For 300 years in the United States, some people have preferred Harvard; some have preferred Yale, and some study elsewhere. Each college has its own personality. Too much predictability will make all colleges identical, and that would be unbearably blink.

Service Before Sympathy

Submitted by Raymond Trinh:

George Ritzer used the term "McDonaldization" to describe anything with the characteristics of a McDonald’s restaurant. In this sense McDonaldization is to apply a process in which everything is performed with maximum efficiency. This term was created to describe the background setting of a McDonald’s. It uses the application of timing things and doing everything exactly the same – every time. The main concept of Mcdonaldization is to increase budget and lower spending through means of control, predictability, calculability and in turn efficiency.

Because of trying to achieve a maximum profit there is usually the effects of: job cuts such as relinquishing themselves from the need to have waiters or bus boys, demanding staff be flexible and ready to work whenever they are called upon, limiting and or completely eliminating any means of innovation, and abandoning human interaction. With the demands that the McDonald’s make, they are basically asking their employees to be at the mercy of the company at large. 

Assembly lines are the means in which food is made for consumers in McDonald’s. Each person on this assembly line has a specific task to make the process as fast as possible. The order is taken every time with the exact same words and sent almost instantaneously through a computer so the people in the kitchen (if you can call it that) can do their specific jobs (I.e. one person for bread and cheese, the next for meat, and the next for sauce and pickles, etc.). Through this is the predictability factor in which everything must always be exactly the same, otherwise it is wrong and employees are penalized. There is no love for the work and employees are now acting the roles of robots so that the process is as fast and smooth as possible.

At the end of the day for any company that is using the McDonaldization process, it really does not matter how satisfied the customer or even the worker is. It is all about running efficiently and the profit.

society did it, why cant septa?

By Robert Wall
   Group behavior is to act a certain way with others that have the same values, beliefs, and norms. In the context of being a septa participant why is that the public obeys the septa bus driver and conform to certain behaviors; it’s because no matter how hard people try to consciously make choices people unconsciously obey people of hierarchy. For example, when the bus becomes crowded a few front seats are given up to the elderly even though younger people pay the base fare andelderly pay no fare; thus it’s abnormal not to let an elderly person rest showing if one person can give up a seat “we all can” per say nomatter what age (non-elderly), race, sex, or economic status. Furthermore, when failing to obey the septa rules you are to adhere to the septa bus driver since he is the hierarchy figure for that momentof that bus in which society pays to keep moving.
    In the amidst of listening to music without headphones in public facilities that is considered abnormal, and because everyone exhibits the same behavior using headphones makes that behavior socialized and normalized creating new societal norms, so without a doubt “the rest will follow.” Behaviors expressed in groups are often uncontrollable since the brain is really unconscious while observing others behaviors via learning and understanding those behaviors. It is a societal norm to let women enter the public transit bus before men letting us know what chivalry and respect is for women. For instance, when the septa bus pulls up to its pertaining address to let tax payers on one man lets a lady come before him and so the rest come running behind similar to the way the men wait instead of breaking the formal chain of women showing our obedience levels and group behavior. In these cases, septa is generally the hierarchy figures figuratively, second the septa bus driver, and finally the ideal “man."

    Society may not notice these group behaviors as showing obedience such as giving up public seats, illustrating chivalry, and using headphones in public because at the moment it is no thought of as this. So group behaviors most of the time can’t be controlled, nor obedience if the authority figure has or plays a certain role, but the behavior within the context or content of the group may be change depending on what variables affect them. Group behaviors are almost unconscious and are seen by people everyday like the behavior of students under the professors eyewatch or observation. Septa made consumers of them more obedient by implementing laws just as America did 400 years ago and through group behavior that is how the more general conform to certain behaviors within a group.

Don't Know, Don't Ask...Just Do by Joshua Lynch

Through out history, it has always been a part of our nature as humans to not only know what a thing does, but HOW a thing works. This is shown through our passionate scientific pursuits. Man didn't only use the wheel, we learned the science behind it and how it works and how we can make it better, which eventually led to the pioneering of the automobile. Man didn't only want to use fire, we wanted to learn how to harness and create it. We learned that with a little bit of oxygen and a "whole lotta' heat" that we could create one of the most devastating weapons that ever existed. It was through the ambition of the Wright brothers and their study of aerodynamics that allowed our feet to leave the ground and finaly touch the clouds. So if this lust for the "how" that lead to such great innovations, why would we ever simply settle for the simplicity of only using something. The answer to that question is a combination of greed and desperation. The greedy feeding on the desperate.

A Sociologist by the name of George Ritzer first used the term McDonaldization as a means of controlling the way fast food industries are ran, and even how they spread to more private sectors. There are five pillars of this concept: control, efficiency, predictability, calculability, and the irrationality of  rationality. Basically the goal of all of these pillar are to maximize efficiency. This is done by taking a task and breaking it down into smaller task, that task is then broke down into smaller task. This process is continued until the simplest and most efficient process is achieved. A prime example of this is the assembly line is the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CReDRHDYhk8&feature=related

The real problem with this process is the manner it treats the worker. As i stated before humans like to seek how, and become a part of the process. This Mcdonaldizations prevents that sense of  empowerment and self worth that people get from using their creativity completely. It's completly dehumanizing to simplify a human beings job to a task that any machine could do. And at the same time tell that person that we don't want you to think, we don't want your input, we want you to become a robot and behave as such. Thid way of thinking is made to benefit a beaurocracy. The burgeouisie takes advantage of the working class by implementing a system inwhich the worker has a task so simple and yet he still does not question why they're doing a task, the lose that basic human need, the need ot understand the "how" and the "why". It is this beaurocracy that completely strips the worker of their humanity in the work place in exchange for efficient and predictable results. So I ask you the reader, do you believe that this way of thinking should be done away with, or is it a accemptable means to an end?

Crowd Control

By: Justin Sharpley

                

 Group behavior and obedience is a two edged sword. Behaving a certain way based on the group we are a part of is something we are all failure with but sometimes the role changes based on the desired outcome of that group interaction/involvement.  One example is when there is an altercation on a playground involving adolescents. Inevitably, the two children having an argument will be surrounded by the other children witnessing the argument. After shouting words of encouragement, more often than not a chant of “fight! fight!” will begin. The children involved in the argument will then take the cue from the crowd and start throwing punches. This is of course an example of negative group behavior. 

                An example of positive group behavior could be at a standing room concert. You have a large group of people all enjoying the same show, singing the same songs, and all acting similar to one another. People are standing shoulder to shoulder, with everyone trying to get as close as they can to the stage in front of them, sometimes a part of the crowd will even start another behavior that may seem aggressive and start shoving one another and generally running into one another. This is of course aggressive behavior but it is rarely done in an angry way, evidence of this can be found when a person falls down in such a situation. People stop doing what they are doing, make space for the fallen person to get back up, and then continue to enjoy the show. This is of course dependent on the artist performing the show as well. The crowd will respond to the performer in a very unique way. The performer will control the crowd essentially taking a large group of strangers, bringing them together to the same mind space and then using that to control the crows and put on a show.

                These are both examples of group behavior in which different situations and circumstances control the behavior. Group behavior is something as small as how we act in an elevator, to something as large as how we act when in a group of our peers. Group behavior and the obedience of the group is something that has always been around and is a very strange thing. The idea of taking people of different backgrounds and unifying them is something we have all experienced, and positive or negative, it can be a very powerful thing.

The affects of a group on an individual.

By Charles Marren

You can be anything you want in life. It’s the most popular phrase used by parents and teachers to ignite the hopes and dreams of children and young adults. But wouldn’t it be better to phrase it as you can be whatever you think you can be? One of the very first things we’ve learned in sociology is that we have a limited view of the world and in this post I would like to discuss how groups may be the cause of not just our views of the world, but how we view ourselves and our limitations. 

Let’s kick this off with an example. Imagine a girl named Sarah. Sarah is sixteen, comes from a middle class home in the city, and has two loving parents. While age and parent situations differ from each of the other students in her school, what type of area she lives in and wealth does not. So on some grand level she’s equal with her classmates. So if we were to ask Sarah during the week of cheerleader tryouts why she’s not doing it and she tells us it’s because she feels she just can’t do it, we would have to wonder what could cause these feelings to plague her mind.

Primary Groups are known as our most intimate groups. They are our family, friends, and any other group that we are close to. Let’s talk about group of friends. As your primary group of friends you all share the same interests. These range from views, clothes, and hobbies. Although individuality still is among you, there is still a strong set of sameness within the group.

Now let’s jump back to Sarah and say that she is by our standards a nerd. She gets really great marks in school, and is a part of the science club. Sarah’s friends also get good grades too and some take part in after school activities too such as band, french club, and like Sarah, the science club. So how could this primary group affect Sarah’s belief in herself?

Through people we see what might be possible for ourselves. We see a singer performing on the stage at the Grammys, who happens to also come from our own city and we then are able to picture that we ourselves could be up there too. Sadly these dreams fade quickly and are forced to look at what’s more on the terms of reality for us, and we find that through our primary groups.  For example Sarah, who is surrounded by friends that excel in activities that require more of a mental stamina than physical. This is a group that has accepted her as one of their own, unlike those who take part in the activities such as football, soccer, tennis, etc.

A group that a person does not feel a connection with is called an out-group.  This other group may be one in which a person doesn’t like, or simply feel they themselves cannot be a part of due to their own placement and group settings. In Sarah’s case she feels she cannot take part in any clubs relating to physical activities because she has zero connection to them. Without any friends taking part in it, or others in that group being friends with her, she cannot seem to imagine even taking part in it. So without being accepted or having any relation to group that differs greatly from our own, how is Sarah or any of us able to accept ourselves in another group?

In The Dark

Sheba George

                Mc Donaldization is a term coined by Sociologist George Ritzer. If you’re not familiar with his work or haven’t read his book The Mc Donalization of Society, he defines Mc Donaldization as, “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American Society as well as the rest of the world”. The process of Mc Donaldization consists of 5 main ingredients: efficiency, calculability, predictability, control, and the irrationality of the rationality. Americans appear to be always in a hurry, to go where and to do what is irrelevant. They want things done fast and in their way. Society has become lazy and impatient. But what happens when this system is exercised by evil men. For example, The Manhattan Project on July 16^th 1945, a joint effort between the States, Canada, and United Kingdom to develop strategic nuclear weapons culminates with a detonation in New Mexico named the Trinity Test which is later used in 2 different cities Hiroshima, Japan and Nagasaki, Japan. This project employed more than 130,000 people at 3 different facilities across 3 different states.

                A practice known as compartmentalization: in matters concerning intelligence, whether public or private sector, compartmentalization of information to persons who directly need to know certain such information in order to perform certain tasks, go hand in hand with Mc Donaldization in this operation. Therefore, information is limited on a need to know basis and people are often left in the dark while working on a project. General Leslie Groves of The Manhattan Project stated that “compartmentalization is the heart of security”. Each man should know everything he needs to know and nothing else. All they ask of you is an honest day’s work. When society fails to question their small part in a large assembly line of a bureaucracy they are stripped of everything humane. They become marionettes and are manipulated to benefit only the elite.  

This is a clip from an episode of “I Love Lucy,” where Lucy and her friend are working in a candy factory and are given the small task of wrapping pieces of chocolate as they move along a conveyor belt. When the belt starts to speed up, Lucy and her friend are left desperate to keep up. This is an example of Ritzer’s “the irrationality of the rationality”. He explains: “Most specifically irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable. In other words, they deny the basic human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them." The worker's need for the conveyer belt to move at a "human" pace correlates to the demands of a rationalized production process of a bureaucracy, which seeks to employ little to no workers possible to wrap chocolates.

Group Behavior

Submitted by Elena Lazarova

              People interact in small or large groups and the group they choose to participate in influences their behavior.  We could be a part of a school group, an organizational group, a peers group and etc.  Moreover, children are highly influenced by the groups they are involved in, and let that structure controls their social word.

              A great example of a group school behavior is the comparison between early adolescence and middle childhood behavior.  A research shows that fourth, sixth and eight graders were combined either with a close friend or with a classmate whom they neither strongly liked, nor strongly dislike. The pairs of children were observed while they were doing two assignments that provided them with the vision for kind and helpful behavior among each other.  On one of the challenges, children distributed presents to themselves and to their partner. On the second task, children were allowed to help their partner get his/her present, when the partner was placed on a disadvantage. In the end the results showed an increase in age with differences between friends’ and classmates’ behavior. Eight graders were more helpful and more generous towards friends then towards other classmates. On the other hand, fourth and sixth graders threated their friends and classmates equally. This research shows that group behavior changes within ages.   

            

               Another example of group behavior is the organizational behavior that explains how people, individuals and groups acts in organizations. Its purpose is to build better connections by accomplishing human, organizational and social goals.

 The workers see that, as this is a characteristic of work life, which leads their level of motivation.  A good example of group behavior among work environment is illustrated among the corporate environment. Employees have their cliques; just like in high school teenagers have their cliques. Moreover, there is a tendency to obey an authority figure. Employees are divided hierarchical and they act differently when they are within their level circle and when they are outside of it. Also, every individual in the group can be influenced by the direction of an authority figure.

               Group behavior changes within the age and the different group participation. Almost every person once in his/her life has been a part of a group. It could be a small or a large one. It could be a different kind of a social group. But this group will illustrate a point of view, influenced by our own opinion, the opinion of others participants, or an authority figure.

Group Behavior within the Philly Flash Mob and the La Riots

By Dineen Johnson

                            Group Behavior is defined as a small or large amount of people and the way they act among one another.  Crowds, Mobs and Gangs all show group behavior.  These groups may act a certain way to achieve a goal together and individually there actions differ when they are alone. 

                            

            Flash Mobs began several years ago, where large groups would gather on the street for art, dancing and impromptu.  These groups were linked through social sites such as Facebook, MySpace and text messaging.  They were once innocent but today have taken a turn for the worse.  Today hundreds of uncontrollable teens that sprint the downtown streets assaulting pedestrians, vandalizing, fighting and rioting are what make up the "new" Flash Mob.  This type of group behavior alters the teenagers attitude and behavior causing them to act out. 

              Actions have been enforced such as curfew, holding the parents legally responsible for their children's actions and making free transit passes for students invalid after school hours to limit the teens ability to ride downtown. Unfortunately, with all this enforcement there is a high possibilty that this may not work because of the lack of respect and obedience from our youth.

               The LA Riots is also an example of group behavior.  Riots evolve from simple crowds to caotic masses. These masses give individuals a false feeling of strenghth and invisibility.  This large group of people were all feeling the same emotion of betrayal and anger.  The beating of Rodney King was the reason for these people coming together and acting out. Normally people don't want others to see them act out or commit crimes but in large numbers the mentality is different.

I guess everything is OK as long as everyone else is doing it!

                                               

Socialization Among Juvinile Deliquents

Hello, My name is Stacey Nelson.

My post is basically about the social interaction of children that causes deliquency.

Most children's primary social group is thier families. Families are very important to a childs upbringing. The way they are taught at home kind of tell you what their social mind-process will be. In most cases, families raise their children to only hang out with certain people. Some follow and some don't, but in all aspects, parents strive to make thier kids what they want them to be.

On the other hand, some kids kind of find thier own way of gaining a meaning to the world. They find all the wrong people to become friends with and end up down the path of distruction. Socialization is one of the main teaching tools among children. Being taught how to act in society, or behave a certain way is mainly influenced by their peers, which brings me to the next influential social group, peers or friends.

Almost all children follow the "in crowd". Their friends have to be the most facsinating people in their world. No one wants to go against the crowd, so they tend to go with the "norm". In some cases, children only do what is cool to their friends verses what is the right thing which is usually the wrong thing. What do you think? In your opinion, do you think the socialization of these children have anything to do with their behavior? 

Even the Entertainment Industry has the "Who Is" and "Who's Not".

BY : TAI VIRGIL


Socialization is commonly described as a continuing process in which a person acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavioral and social skills of that social group. What one social group may consider a norm another social group may look at as forbidden. Many people today look at our entertainment industry as one large social group, but through a magnifying glass our entertainment industry can and often is divided between what each class considers the "who is" and the "who's not". For example, Ray J is a prominent, wealthy, well known celebrity that has an "indoor pool, outdoor pool, an indoor court and outdoor court" so he claims. But, it was made clear that he was not apart of the self proclaimed "Money Team" (50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather's entourage) as he thought he was.

Here you have two elite women of the entertainment industry LaLa Vasquez Anthony and Kim Kardashian photoed with tennis player Serena Williams and singer/Beyonce's shadow Kelly Rowland. Anyway, both being socialites in their own aspect and often caught in the paparazzi's never ending spotlight these women have made a big name for themselves when it comes to being an "it" factor. They surround themselves with a social group of women that identify with the same social class, wealth, and skills as them while also only dating the top athletes (minus Kris Humphries). These women have landed themselves reality shows in which showcase how they want to display themselves to millions of viewers and have us believe that this is how they live their everyday life.  

 

Within another social group of the entertainment industry you have the cast of the Jersey Shore. They definitely differ from the entourage that Kim Kardashian and LaLa identify with but still have a quite large fanbase. The Jersey Shore cast is no stranger to showcasing the way they live their life, partying, drinking and "smushing" (what they call sex) different guys, girls and each other until 8 am while also being fluent in profanity which displays acts of their social norm. The women  pride themselves on their loud colorful outfits, huge hair and long extensions.While the guys pride themselves on bring girls home that are DTF (willing to have sex easily), GTL (gym, tanning, laundry) and fist pumping. They've created quite a name for themselves.

These two social groups are perfect examples of how the entertainment industry has an umbrella over a social class that branches off  into sections with different values and norms. Yes, both groups of people are wealthy, blogged about constantly, have numerous YouTube tutorials on how to do your make up and hair like them, set trends and have landed many endorsements and publicity off of who they are, but they differ in when it comes to the bigger picture. That bigger picture is who is who. That bigger picture who is really invited to the Grammy's or who is sitting behind who at the VMA's. Yes, these groups may acknowledge each other in passing, can be caught sitting courtside at a game together by chance and smile and chat for a couple of paparazzi flicks, but to bring Jersey Shore castmates Dena or Snooki into Kim K's entourage of who she considers as "friends" is highly unlikely. Their social norms and behavioral skills are displayed to the public totally different. While Snooki and Dena have no problem announcing on national tv that they often don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, openly have sex with men they meet that night and castmates, kissing girls and getting drunk and arrested on the beach, Kim K and LaLa's show displays them vacationing on yachts with family, enjoying brunches with friends, and shopping with small talk and convo.  Nevertheless, America loves the entertainment on both sides of the fence according to ratings whether its consider "ratchet and raunchy" or not. But, through the social aspect of it all, the money, fame and fortune comes within a different light to each social group, a light that doesn't always promise longevity within fame.