By so doing, they hope to gain acceptance within that community as well.
Question: The question addressed here is whether cultural and community forces are causing individuals to commit delinquent acts as a way to be accepted and feel as though they belong.
Information: Information that was important to this study was a chart detailing the concerns for individuals in what was deemed the 'lower class culture.' In addition, each one of these concerns was addressed from the point-of-view of what they meant to the individuals within that culture.
Inferences: The main inference in this study is that individuals that come from lower-income and disadvantaged homes and communities often join gangs at a higher rate. When they do this, they work to be accepted by other gang members, and crime and delinquency are often ways to gain this acceptance.
Concept: In order to understand the reasoning of the author, it is important to know that they studied individuals in a particular geographic area, and that other geographic areas might be different in whether individuals join gangs at the same rate and what kinds of 'initiation' these gangs have.
Assumptions: The author takes for granted that individuals who join gangs are underprivileged, and that they join these gangs to gain acceptance, instead of other potential reasons.
Implications: Accepting the author's reasoning would indicate that 'lower class' people join gangs because they cannot get acceptance elsewhere, and that 'higher class' people already have that acceptance - or seek it in healthier ways.
Point-of-View: I think that the author has a point, but that money does not buy class.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to look at a program that was designed to keep individuals 'in line'...
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