Winchester Argumentative Analysis

While Winchester fails to address how individuals are affected in group settings, Baker’s article on Sorority Rituals and Fraternity Violence clearly depicts how women transform during the pledging process where moral influence is established when women are brought together. Hazing in most sororities are unreported and as a result, become accepted and is considered normal because it is the tradition. Baker talks about how hazing can lead to this cycle of longing for authority through mental, physical and sexual abuse in participants. (Baker 2010) Pledging rituals such as hazing have become transformative in behavior because members are being encouraged to haze each other because it is considered an acceptable activity. In the early stages of