How is a school shooting socially constructed

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Assignment:

Read the New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell on school shootings. Link: gladwell.thresholds

Analyze the text, using the structure/culture/agency frames for sociological view. Answer the questions (submit to discussion board):

a) According to Gladwell, how is a school shooting socially constructed? What "social forces" underly this social phenomenon?

b) What structural explanation is suggested in the analysis (by Gladwell)?

[In other words, what structural social facts underly the social pattern of school shooting, and mentioned/discussed in the text?]

c) What cultural explanation is suggested in the analysis (by Gladwell)?

[In other words, what cultural social facts underly the social pattern of school shooting, and mentioned/discussed in the text?]

d) How much agency do individual shooters exercise?

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