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Meritocracy is the belief that if you work hard, you will be able to move up in society.

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Ms. Baker and RIcky believed that if Ricky just worked hard, he would have better opportunities to move up in society. He was athletic and did well in sports. USC was going to give him a scholarship and all he had to do was get a certain score on the SAT. American society is based on this idea of meritocracy, but not everyone who works hard can move up. Ricky worked hard and even passed the SAT, but his circumstances and environment didn't allow him to succeed. And most of his circumstances and environment are out of control.

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Masculinity refers to the social roles, gender roles, norms, behaviors, and attitudes of men within a society. One type of masculinity that shows up in Boyz in the Hood is hegemonic masculinity which refers to men's dominant and superior position in society. Another type of masculinity present in the movie is black masculinity which refers to specifically black men's position in society.

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A common theme in this movie is what it is to be a man. Furious Styles, Tre's father,  tried to teach him what he believed it took to be  a man.

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Racial stereotypes are generalizations of certain races. Traits and characteristics are assigned to all the members of that race. In Boyz n the Hood, there are several stereotypes about African Americans that were presented which include the tough stereotype, the athelitic stereotype, the studious stereotype, the absent father stereotype, and the self-hating stereotype

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One racial stereotype present in Boy n the Hood is that African American fathers are usually absent, which is the case for the Baker family.

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Deviance is the act of violating the norms of society. Boyz in the Hood is full of deviant behavior which includes selling drugs, gang participation, murder, and gun violence. Then you also have Tre's father and Ricky's mom who try to prevent their sons from deviance.

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Gang participation is also considered deviant behavior. Most people follow the norms of society and do not involve themselves with gangs. This creates deviants, who want to go against the norms of society. In this film, bloods and crips are rival gangs. In the beginning of the film, the boys were children when they encountered the blood gang that took Ricky's football. One of the members gave the football back. Then, later in high school, Tre encounters the same gang and the same member who gave him his ball back and got into a fight with him.

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There is a lot of gun violence in Boyz n the Hood, which is considered deviant behavior. A majority of society accepts the rules and regulations about gun violence, but the characters in this movie do not. The movie starts off with a black screen and the sound of gun shots, which sets the tone for the whole movie. The movie begins with a shooting and murder that happens in Tre's neighborhood when he is a child. He later moves with his dad. On the first day with his father, someone breaks into their house and Tre's father shoots at him. Later on when the boys are in high school, the "crips" are all hanging out and then the "bloods" come in. Ricky and one blood, the one that passed him back his football when he was a kid, get into a argument just because Ricky bumped into someone. That one blood pulls out a gun and shoots it in the air. And finally, that same guy sees Ricky again on the street and shoots and kills him.

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Obviously, murder is a deviant behavior. It is against the law to murder someone. Throughout the movie, several murders occur. The movie starts off with a murder in the black community when Tre was a kid. When the police pull over Tre and Ricky later in the movie when they are in high school, they release the boys because they get a 187 which means a murder happened. Then, Ricky is murdered by the rival gang. Finally, Doughboy and his friends find the rival gang members that killed his brother, and murdered them

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Throughout the movie, Tre's father tries to prevent Tre from becoming a deviant. He tries to teach him to become responsible and even tells Tre that the kids across the street (the Baker family) don't have what he has, and to watch where they'll end up. Just like Tre's father's friends, Tre's friends end up participating in gangs, robbing, killing and drinking.

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In today's society, doing drugs and selling drugs are considered as violating the norms. When caught doing either, individuals are arrested and scrutinized by others. In the film, Doughboy is selling drugs to people from the front porch of his house. He has been in and out of juvie and still continues to sell drugs. Then later, Tre visits a neighbor's house. This neighbor is a crack addict, who answers the door with the baby in her arms. With her child in her arms, she's asking Tre if he has any drugs and that she'll do a number of things for drugs, of which even includes giving him a blowjob.