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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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I’ll tell you a story. This client has all of the above factors. I was working with a young African American man that was in our mental health unit because he had been suicidal. As the social worker on his treatment team, I went to interview him. He was only 22 and sentenced to life for homicide. He had killed a man after carjacking him. On the anniversary of his sentencing, he had tried to kill himself. He was now only one year into his sentence. During our conversation, it became clear that he didn’t know how he was going to survive what could be 60+ years in prison. He took responsibility for his crime, but was scared now and wanted/needed help. I asked him about his background. Where he grew up, and what his family was like. He launched into a detailed story about how he had grown up in foster care in a large urban city. He had been in multiple homes, all of which had been abusive to him. He reported that in the last home, where he stayed the longest, there were times when he was chained to the basement, not fed, beat with a belt, or worse. If you think this sounds like a movie, I assure you, it’s real. People live like this. When he was old enough he fled to the streets where he became a member of a gang. He had a criminal record starting as a juvenile and then his federal arrest and conviction when he was 21. So here is my point. This young man had never had ANY proper socialization or upbringing. Not from his school, which he dropped out of in the 5th grade. Not from a peer group who was a gang that only taught him violence. And not from the “family” that had promised to take care of him. The question is, would we expect that this man would grow up to know anything other than violence and crime? That’s not a rhetorical question. Think about it and you’ll be able to discuss it in the discussion forum. After reading his story, would we have an expectation that this man would grow up to know anything other than violence and crime?

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