Finishing Deadliest Catch Article

I wrote about 18 pages today of my article about The Deadliest Catch. its called "Crabby: The tensions of Command, Commerce and Democracy on the Crab Boats of The Deadliest Catch." The idea is that the crab boat is an autocratic institution. The Captain is, to borrow from the President, the decider. yet, the men who crew the crab boat are from a democratic-capitalist culture. Thus working on a crab boat involves the sublimation of the culture of the individual in support of the efficiency of the group.

Now, captains should be able to act in an autocratic method. but i argue that the captains of the crab boat, for all their statements saying "this is not a democracy" still negotiate with their crews and have to prove their own legitimacy.

I am using the theories from the research I conducted on military command. There are a lot of similarities between the military and the crab boats (in both, a hierarchical institution replaces a democratic citizen culture.) Once it takes a final form, it should be really good. The theories are pretty cool and the examples really tie everything together.

This is my first adventure into the world of Popular Culture Studies. I think there may be a presentation in this topic (command in the workplace, as seen on tv) that I can bring to the regional PCA (Popular Culure Association) conference.