Thursday, October 17, 2019

Just Mercy and Socialization/Gender

Review:
For the test, review the first two pages of the notes packet:




















Unit 3: Social Structure:  (Chapter 4-8)
67 how institutions reproduce culture.



68 how institutions like Supreme Court can change culture.



70 culture of death penalty in AL and the institution of politics



71 cultural values (usefulness, practicality, self-help, individualism) create norms of intolerance



77-79 real culture vs. ideal culture

pg 90-91 “…we would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse.  Yet we are comfortable killing people who kill, in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn’t implicate our own humanity, the way that raping or abusing someone would.  I couldn’t stop thinking that we don’t spend much time contemplating the details of what killing someone actually involves.







74-75 (chapter 4) How does war act as an agent of socialization? 

89-90 Herbert’s socialization from childhood through his return from war.

How do parents of poor black kids socialize their children?




Here is a link to Marsha Colbey.



Chapter VIII Of The Coming of John
A whole community was invested in John (like Stevenson) but John was lynched and it devastated the community similar to how Walter’s conviction had.



Chapter 6

115 “Only a handful of countries permitted the death penalty for children-and the United States was one of them….Many states had changed their laws to make it easier o prosecute children as adults, and my clients were getting younger and younger.  Alabama had more juveniles sentenced to death per capita than any other state – or any other country in the world.

How does Charlie’s story exemplify what we learned about socialization?



“If we don’t expect more from each other, hope better for one another, and recover from the hurt we experience, we are surely doomed.”

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