To riot is to take part in a violent public disturbance. Riots are violently wild and intriguingly complicated as they create a mosaic of anger, confusion, and destruction. Being as convolting as they are, Mark Granovetter, a sociologist studying at Stanford, began an in-depth study trying to undercover the complex makeup of these inherently growing phenomenons. As a result, he constructed a theory entitled Granovetter’s model. This theory explained that a riot was not a collection of individuals, each of whom arrived independently at the decisions to break window. Instead, he suggested that a riot was social process, in which people did things in reaction to and in combination with those around them (Thresholds of Violence Malcom Gladwell,