Essay On Granovetter's Theory

¨Granovetter's Theory¨

Gladwell has a strong argument when proving Granovetter’s Theory with the use of claims, ethos, pathos, logos, including a combination of other methods and by comparing it to school shootings that has said to be a modern phenomenon. In his perplex, but subtle article, Gladwell goes on to prove that school shooting have become so common and ingrain into our society, that they have evolved into a coterie of people joining into this whole fiasco. Gladwell goes onto state, “Granovetter took riots as one of his main examples, because a riot is a case of destructive violence that involves a great number of otherwise quite normal people who would not usually be disposed to violence” (Gladwell, Pg 6). Believing in this theory, Gladwell proves how the more people

Ralph Larkin appears into an argument, “Harris and Klebold laid down the “cultural script” for the next generation of shooters, they had a Website, they made home movies starring themselves as hit men, they wrote lengthy manifestos” (Gladwell, Pg 8). With Larkin’s vast knowledge he displays while others tend to imitate Harris and Klebold.

In addition, Gladwell goes on to support Larkin and Granovetter by stating, “Larkin and Paton are describing the dynamics of Granovetter’s threshold model of group behavior” (Gladwell, Pg 8). If you were to conclude why shooters have such a range of people good or evil, it is because overtime the “riot” evolves and brings all who stand near or far to associate themselves with people they never dreamed of being with. La Due and Darion are the anomalies in the equation because they are said to be genuine good people, but at the end these “good” people ended up being absorbed by the riot around