The Interactionist Perspectives In TV Show, CSI

Synopsis:
CSI is a TV show that takes place in Las Vegas with a group of crime scene investigators. In these episodes it allows you to see just how far technology has actually progressed over the years. Each episode is different and there are different aspects to each show. Just to think that how many unsolved cases there are because the crime scene was unable to be processed because lack of technology.
Sociological Perspectives
In this paper I will be using the interactionist perspective to explain this one particular episode that I have chosen to discuss. The particular episode I will be discussing is about a man who has a foot fetish which causes him to watch women’s feet and react. I will be focusing on this one character in this episode.
While the csi crew was being followed by a reality TV crew, while being followed they receive the call about a vicious rape of a woman in a hotel room. The victim of the rape was alive however she was unable to remember to much information. This is because the foot fetish rapist had use basically laughing gas at first before giving her another drug to immobilize her and erase her memory for a short period of time. During this time the rapist, admired the victim’s feet over and over again, he also raped her over and over again. He focused more on the feet though he wanted to make sure that the feet stayed perfect and
While growing up his mother was a prostitute, and she would take her son with her to her jobs and the only place for the son to hide was under the bed. While he was under the bed he would admire his mothers feet because they were so beautiful. Seeing her feet everyday and just watching them was part of the reasoning for the foot fetish. The problem started at a young age, but because of the type of environment he probably grew up in he never could get the help that he needed. Most of us have the opportunity to get help for our conditions that we may have, this way we can change the outcome of our lives. However for people like the rapist who are brought up in a type of environment where no one cares what kind of conditions you might have its hard to get the help that you need. I think that the rapist environment and also the way his mother brought him up had a lot to do with how his condition spiraled out of control. As a mother she should have though what that type of environment would do to her son and she could have been more nurturing as a mother figure. Not only was she a prostitute but she took her young child with her to her job. The consequence of that is that the child developed a condition in which he was unable to do anything about and it got progressively worse over the