Social Determinism in Martin Scorsese’s Movie Goodfellas

Abstract

The present research on Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas basically presents how the society and the social shape the behavior of the characters gets with the Marxist notion of the thought. It attempts to prove the subjugation of the individuals by the war which makes them the helpless victim of the war. George Lukacs’ notion how the class-consciousness determines the social and individual atmosphere has been exploited to find how the war is responsible to cause the domination, subjugation and the mass murder. Mailer’s central subject is the relationship between the individual’s will and a world that attempt to overwhelm and extinguish it. Intimately connected with this spiritual warfare is the subject of power, particularly political power and the individual’s need to resist the encroaching forces of totalitarianism. There is a longstanding controversy over the importance of social class in the production of criminal conduct. Some argue that there is a strong relationship between social class and crime while others say there is little or no relationship. This controversy is often an argument over the definition and measurement of crime, and the meaning of class.The concept of globalization of crime with the human diaspora arrangement which examines the role that crime plays as an agent of social change, social chaos and renovation. Linked to class consciousness and social development, we can understand the socio-political status of crime, crime in transitional cultures, such as the war on terror, the globalization of economies and culture, and the increasing social diversity and division in our societies.