Putting it all together

Last week in sociology we watched the movie A Bronx Tale. This movie follows the life of coloduro or C, as he grows up in an Italian neighborhood controlled by a mob. Through out the film C is part of different social groups that all inpact him in different ways. C 3 main groups that he was apart of during the film, his friends, the mob, and his family. All of these groups impacted who C was as a person and also caused different social constructions of reality. Take for example each groups view on racism. His family and his friends were racist twords blacks because of how they grew up, especially for his friends. Early in the movie we saw them at a young age yelling at a black person on a bus chasing after them and calling him names. This same action carried in into their leter years becoming a social norm for them to hate blacks. This sort of action is pushed onto C as he is sort of shaped to hate blacks as well because of the social construction of his friends.