The Bloods And Crips: What Makes Up A Group

Groups. What are they? What makes up a group? What can be considered as a group and who can be part of them? These are all good questions. I hope to answer all of them for you throughout my essay. Groups is defined a “people who think of themselves as belonging together and who interact with one another, are the essence of life in society”(Henslin). The Bloods and Crips are two of the most notorious groups (gangs) none to mankind. After reading about Kody Scott’s situation in becoming part of the Bloods I feel that this is part of his in-group and the Crips would be considered part of his out-group. Let’s use another example here. Take a look at the US Military. This can be considered as a group right? Yes, it can. You ask or are asked to
Groups like the Hells Angels, Billy the Kid’s gang, the mobsters and even those that were Bloods in the past and may have either been killed or died. The same pretty much goes for the men and women in the military we as soldiers reference the men and women that served before us. We look back on what they did and learn from them. We see how society treated some of them when they come home from war or even while they were in war. This same thing goes for the individuals in the Bloods and Crips. Society treated them all like they were trash all though many of them did not have much of a choice due to their upbringing or maybe even their parents running off and leaving them to fend for their
Not all groups are considered as a “gang”. There can be groups within your work place. Pipefitters can be one group and carpenters can be another. Now let’s look at the college. You can have your scholar group, you can have your fraternity groups, your artistic groups, and the list can go on and on. So when looking at different groups one must not automatically judge them and make acquisitions about them. Anyone can join any group at almost any time, all it takes is asking the right person or getting to know the right person. However, there are groups out there that have secret members and not just any one can join. These groups add new members by recruiting them through members that they already have, so therefore there members are handpicked by their own