Boweling for Columbine
...l Control from parents and society is a ways to control it. Social Control are attempts by society and social actors to control thoughts and behaviors of people (Lecture 4/25/04). These kids who are murders participated in what we call crime. Crime is deviance that is encoded law and is punishable by the state (Lecture 4/25/04). These kids were punished by the state to an extent. For the first grade shooting it was considered, what does a six year old know about murder or killing someone? As we saw and learned from the movie, it does not matter what age someone was that killed with guns, they are labeled as deviant. Since they were caught, they have the first negative stigma associated with their name (Lecture 4/25/04). Also in the movie, there was a lot of stereotyping against black people. People would put the blame on a black person, even if they did not do it. Also, guns are at easy access. One of the l...