All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociology when I read Eating Your Friends Is the Hardest: The survivors of the F-227. I read about these people that got stranded on a mountain and their only choice of survival was to eat the dead people. I thought it was disgusting, but it the reasons for these people's actions related very much to Strain and Phenomenological Theory. First, it related to StrainTheory because since they were stranded on a mountain top, they basically developed their own rules. The norms of society didn't apply to them anymore.
The Phenomenological Theory relates to these stranded people because of their situation. The only food that they had in the beginning was chocolate and wine, but that ran out very fast. After they heard that the rescue squad was no longer searching for them, they realized that they needed to find a way to survive. The only option that they had was to eat the dead bodies. They made their actions positive by telling themselves that this was their only way of survival. If they did not do this then they would eventually die.
If Iwas put into this situation, I don't know how I would react. I think that I would reluctantly eat the people because I would know that would be my only way to survive. If put in that situation, everyone is forced to reconsider their morals. The deciding factor would be do you want to live, or die?
I think we'd all want to live, and although it's asking an awful lot, I believe we'd all chow down on Bob if it meant we'd live to see another day. I'm liking how you apply phenemenological theory here, although I'm not sure how strain theory fits.....
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