Collogero's Groups in "A Bronx Movie"

Collogero has a few different groups that influence who he becomes during his life. His first master status, I believe, was "son of the bus driver". He listened to his father in most things-except when he went to the bar-and talked about the New York Yankees with his father because they both placed importance on it. When Collogero was nine, he finally met Sonny, who his treated as G-d in the city, and became the master status of "Sonny's kid" as he was introduced to Sonny's friends and told that "nobody cares about the yankees". He experienced some role strain as he grew up in Sonny's bar and was told to beat people up and that it is better to be feared than loved. Thankfully, he was always a bit different than the rest of them and hid in a corner when, if he were really in the group, he would have been beating bikers up. He also thought it was no way to live to be feared and not loved. However, this was his master status at the time, no matter how well he fit in, this was how he defined himself. Later, he also became part of the Deuces Wild with his racist friends that skipped school and hung out all day. There was also role strain in this group as he was not racist and said that the african americans didn't mean anything when they went through the neighborhood. He also tried to keep his friends from hurting the boys on the bicycles too much and didn't do anything to them. i like to figure that Sonny and Collogero's friends from the Deuces Wild still had a big impact on him even after they died that one night.