The Wire Chapter Summaries

The fourth episode of The Wire was about trying to get more evidence on Avon. The opening was McNulty and Greggs in a courtroom hoping to get information from Marvin Browning about Avon. Marvin chose to go to jail rather than to give Avon up. McNulty goes through old cases and tries to connect them to Barksdale but he finds no concrete evidence connecting them. By the end we learned more about Clarke Peters and who he is and that he is “natural police”. In the book Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences, Chapter 4 is about Status Inequality. Throughout the chapter Hurst explains how status is figured out and what factors into it. Some of the major factors are occupation and education.
Jay Landsman went and visited Major Rawls to talk about McNulty. Here we saw that Rawls has many degrees …show more content…
Even if people are considered having a low social status, they can have a high social status inside that group. This then cause people to treat each other differently and based on their ranking. “When ranking does occur among status groups, deference is expected to be shown toward those in more prestigious or honored groups”(Hurst 74).” The gang is full of many people and each person is in a different “layer” of the gang. With Avon being the leader he is considered high social class. Everybody does what he says and he calls all the shots. He is respected by many and is rarely questioned. Then comes his nephew DeAngelo. With being higher up, he gets more respects than the teenagers and people selling the drugs. The teenagers and people who sell the drugs for DeAngelo are considered lower class and are the “workers”. They don't get much respect and they have to do everything that they are told or they will get in trouble. Every social class, no matter high or low, with have their own ranking in it. It is a way for the people to respect the people higher then them and know how to treat the people lower than