Critique

There were a lot of strong points in this book. I really like how the writer when into detail he really made you feel like you where right in the room with them. The details in the book would let you know the little things that would set the mood for the whole book. Another part of the book that I did like is that the author started out fast and made you excited in the begging and made stay with the book. One of the things that did not work for this book is when the author would spend so much time explaining what is going on that the book would get really dry and boring in many parts. But other then that the author did a good job keeping the reader interested. For the most part the sociology in the book was realistic, when it came to people acting and thinking in groups. But there was no part of the book that I could tell of that the sociology in it was inaccurate. The author did a very good job of letting the reader know what was going on and what the main points of the book are. There are very few parts of the book were as a reader I got lost. So in a whole I really enjoyed the book and the way I could see it connect to sociology.

Commentary

My book was about a group called the illuminati, which was trying to take over all of the catholic churches by organizing secret attacks to slowly take them down. I thought it was good book over all but there was a lot of dry spots. There were a lot of parts when you just wanted the book to end because it seemed to just keep dragging on. Sociology helps a little on understanding why people do the things that they do in this book. But you can only take sociology so far with this book. Because when you try to apply everything to sociology it just does not work out to good. I think the point of this book from a sociology standpoint was to show how people react in certain situations. But most importantly how people act in groups. It shows us what certain people would go through to show a person there loalty and what they do to be ecepted.

Analysis

The book that I read was Angels and Demons written by Dan Brown. From a sociology standpoint it has a lot to do with how people would act in in-groups and the way a person would react to power. For example in the book there is a group of people called illuminati. They are a group of people who want to take control of the church system. There is one man in charge, he does a lot of group leadership, and when he gives an order people will follow it. It does not matter if it is killing a man or killing them selves the order must be carried out. From a sociologist standpoint you could call it group dynamics. You can say that because it is the norm to carry out the order of their leader. He can be considered a task leadership because he is directing the group towards one goal and that is to get control of all the churches. The one main fact that I noticed while reading the book was that these people would work as a group-polarization. They would make more radical decisions as a group then they would make as an individual. So from all of this I learned that not all people will act as one when they are in a group trying to accomplish one goal.









































































































































































































































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