Midterm Pop Culture Critique Narcos - 1695 Words

Luis Garcia Sociology 101 Professor Gomez 10/26/2017 Midterm Pop Culture Critique: Narcos One of the most famous American gangsters of all-time, Al Capone, also known as Scarface, was a highly-recognized Mafioso (a member of a†¦show more content†¦Narcos is a gritty gangster drama series based on the true story of Colombia’s infamously violent and powerful drug cartels during the 1980’s and 1990’s. â€Å"Good people and bad people† are terms interchangeably used in this TV show and when deviance is depicted in the Narcos show, it is not only the criminals departing from the usual or accepted standards from society but also political and government officials are as much deviant as the Narcos themselves. I will also argue that this show uplifts toxic masculinity which is socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and how toxic masculinity ruins society and men through the exam ples displayed from the show. Pablo Escobar, when speaking on deviance once said, â€Å"[A]ll empires are created of blood and fire†. I agree with what Escobar said, because all empires have their positives, but at the same time many, if not all are built upon bloodshed and do we critique when great empires take over another country and the way they go about that with raping, torture or other means of submission? Deviance plays a big role in everything that has to do with building a great nation or a world-wide cartel. When deviance is depicted on the Narcos show, some of the deviance is noted by government officials. The Narcos show demonstrates how many officials of the Colombian police department deviated and departed