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Domenico Bruschi
Dr. Collin Craig
Writing Skills
11/05/12
Why College Males Feel Like They Have to Fit In
As a young male grows up from his childhood to adulthood, he is faced with a lot
challenges. The nature of challenges he faces depends on his age or stage of life. This means that
males may face and respond differently to the challenges they face during their childhood,
teenage and youthful stage of their lives. However, it can be argued that the most challenging
stage of life of a male is his time during college. At this stage, most males are forced to look for
ways to fit in with their peers. Therefore, a question arises in regards to what causes college
males to act in certain ways in order to fit into their society.
In a bid to determine why college males try to fit into society, this paper shall analyze
why college males join fraternities or gangs. It has been observed that joining gangs and
fraternities act as very popular actions taken by males in order to fit in their society. This paper
will therefore aim to determine the factors that cause males in colleges to join gangs and
fraternities as ways of fitting into the society.
It is important to first understand what gangs and fraternities are in order to understand
why college males join them in order to fit in society. Gangs can be described as an association
of more two or more persons who share some common characteristics or identity, through way of
dressing, graffiti or hand signs. Most gangs are made up of members aged between twelve and
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twenty-four years. Criminal activity is a common characteristic of most gangs[ CITATION
Gan09 \l 1033 ]. Fraternities, on the other hand, can be described as societies comprised by
students with the intent of engaging in social activities. In order to join a fraternity, interested
members are supposed to complete some form of initiation or trial. However, some fraternities
recruit new members through passing invitations.
There have been a number of reasons that have been given to explain why college males
join gangs and fraternities. From a general perspective, most if not all gangs seem to engage in
criminal or illegal activities. However, most fraternity groups are just associations meant to build
some social status as opposed to the commission of criminal or illegal acts.
The first reason why college males join gangs arises from an individual needing to join
