Mark And Dalia Owens Summary

The article refers to Mark and Dalia Owens and their escapades as researchers studying the behaviors of humanly naïve wildlife to their corrupt actions against poachers. Although, Goldberg discusses the accomplishes that were made by the Owenses for the nearby oppressed villages and how the Owenses aided the villages, he also discusses how unethical Mark’s antics in particular became with the interactions between scouts and poachers. “The Hunted,” can be connected to conflict theory due to the overwhelming amount of actual conflict that occurred between the stratified groups of poachers, scouts, and activists. People as hopeful as the Owenses that poaching, specifically an illegal killing of elephants in a Park in South Africa, can partake
The purpose of the scouts was to protect the wildlife from being killed by poachers; although the amount of deaths by poachers dramatically decreased in thanks to the scout’s efforts along with Mark’s obsession in getting rid of the poachers. The dramatic difference in killings began to bother the poacher’s livelihood, which caused more tension between the already obsessed Owenses. Owenses received assignation threats among other intent to harm messages and terrorizations; however, they too reciprocated by sending scouts out to search for poachers and committing raids in search for weapons. By asserting their power over possible poachers and nearby villages they were able to coerce their way into a powerful position in which they were the ones to distribute social order concerning wildlife regulations and did so to benefit their agenda to help the wildlife. The inequality that was implemented by the villagers and groups of poachers and scouts is stratified to assist the Owenses campaign. The conflict theory suggests that behavior in social contexts result from conflicts between stratified competing groups of the poachers and