the working class Greasers and the wealthier South Side gang, the Socs. The two sides use any opportunity to niggle each other and whenever they meet, there is friction. Then one night ...

As “The Outsiders” builds to a final gang confrontation, the greasers and the Socs seem like nothing so much as overgrown innocents who do not really understand what any of it is about ...

SYNOPSIS: THE OUTSIDERS is a story about class ... college-bound, and wealthy (the Socs). This is Tulsa 1967, where to be a Soc means to be rich and white. To be a Greaser is to be poor, rejected ...