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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9TgiPl-WM
The traditional stereotypes of fraternities and sororities that the media portrays in movies and TV shows are most commonly related to hazing. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, hazing is defined as, “humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals, esp. as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. “ One of the most common stereotypes is that in order to become a member of a sorority or fraternity, one must be hazed. People often wonder, “Why would anyone want to be a part of something where your own future brothers/sisters haze you? What kind of brotherhood/sisterhood is that?”. If you really think about it you might also question, “What DRIVES an individual to allow someone to haze them?” That’s exactly what I asked myself after I watched this video. What in the world drove these individuals to have a raw egg in their mouth and spit it back out into another person’s mouth and have the last one swallow the raw egg after it had been in five other people’s mouths? What is it about “power”, “discipline” and “dominance” that drive a person to do obey commands from one individual or a group of people?
In correlation to the topic of this video, Weber defines “discipline” as “the possibility of finding a specifiable number of people who in virtue of an habitual attitude will obey a command in a prompt, automatic and unthinking matter.” This video is a perfect example of discipline. Although most may question “what drove these individuals to obey this command”, the overall is that they obeyed the command of the one in power above them. However, to my understanding of the term domination, which Weber defines as “”the possibility of finding a specified group of people to obey a command of a determinate content.” domination, must take place first. In order for power to take place, the one making the commands must make sure that individuals will obey. Once they figure out that they will obey, “discipline” comes into play and individuals learn to not question their command. Now, this does not necessarily mean that they are in agreement with what the commands are or that they feel it is fair to them. I’m sure that these five guys knew it was not right for someone to command them to spit a raw egg into someone else’s mouth, but because the person in power said so, it was done.
Now, when it comes to fraternities and sororities, even the military, an individual does not want to quit. It comes to a point where they become immune to the commands that they just do what they have to do to get to the finish line or to gain membership. They fear that quitting will only make them be seen as “weak” by society and they will feel like a failure. The ironic thing is that those in power KNOW that these individuals want to finish and do not want to quit; therefore, they take advantage of that fact and often make them do humiliating things.
PLEASE WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9TgiPl-WM
The traditional stereotypes of fraternities and sororities that the media portrays in movies and TV shows are most commonly related to hazing. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, hazing is defined as, “humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals, esp. as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. “ One of the most common stereotypes is that in order to become a member of a sorority or fraternity, one must be hazed. People often wonder, “Why would anyone want to be a part of something where your own future brothers/sisters haze you? What kind of brotherhood/sisterhood is that?”. If you really think about it you might also question, “What DRIVES an individual to allow someone to haze them?” That’s exactly what I asked myself after I watched this video. What in the world drove these individuals to have a raw egg in their mouth and spit it back out into another person’s mouth and have the last one swallow the raw egg after it had been in five other people’s mouths? What is it about “power”, “discipline” and “dominance” that drive a person to do obey commands from one individual or a group of people?
In correlation to the topic of this video, Weber defines “discipline” as “the possibility of finding a specifiable number of people who in virtue of an habitual attitude will obey a command in a prompt, automatic and unthinking matter.” This video is a perfect example of discipline. Although most may question “what drove these individuals to obey this command”, the overall is that they obeyed the command of the one in power above them. However, to my understanding of the term domination, which Weber defines as “”the possibility of finding a specified group of people to obey a command of a determinate content.” domination, must take place first. In order for power to take place, the one making the commands must make sure that individuals will obey. Once they figure out that they will obey, “discipline” comes into play and individuals learn to not question their command. Now, this does not necessarily mean that they are in agreement with what the commands are or that they feel it is fair to them. I’m sure that these five guys knew it was not right for someone to command them to spit a raw egg into someone else’s mouth, but because the person in power said so, it was done.
Now, when it comes to fraternities and sororities, even the military, an individual does not want to quit. It comes to a point where they become immune to the commands that they just do what they have to do to get to the finish line or to gain membership. They fear that quitting will only make them be seen as “weak” by society and they will feel like a failure. The ironic thing is that those in power KNOW that these individuals want to finish and do not want to quit; therefore, they take advantage of that fact and often make them do humiliating things.