The Social Workings of the Sicilian Mafia, from its Beginnings to Today
Date Submitted: 06/18/2004 08:40:13
Category: / History / European History
Length: 15 pages (4244 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 15 pages (4244 words)
The Mafia has long fascinated our society, perhaps because there is something we find romantic about organized crime and the Mafioso. Popular culture has created an image of what a Mafioso is and engrained it into our perceptions, through movies and television. These popular culture portrayals do show some similarity to the real Mafia, but in order to truly understand this "organization" we must examine their origins. However, there is no straightforward story about the …
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…a sort of subculture, something that is not part of our everyday life. The case is far different in Sicily. The Mafia is there, everywhere, and is deeply engrained into Sicilian society. "An exhaustive description of the Mafia could correspond closely to a portrait of Sicilian society...This [is] Sicily's most prominent profession, but it is not separate. It belongs."
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