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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?