A Tribe Apart A Journey into the Heart of American...

A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence, by Patricia Hersch a. Respond to the scenario that prompted Hersch’s statement that â€Å"This kind of tolerance amounts to a new ethic of situational excuses, a hazy sense of right and wrong.† What are the cultural factors at play in this scenario? This book, having been written in 1998, offers an interesting perspective on how much things have changed since that time. Having had the opportunity to work with clients incarcerated in the Department of Community Justice’s Secure Treatment Facility, I have had the benefit of seeing the differences – from then to now – apparent in culturally centered criminal thinking and behavior. Although criminal thinking and behaviors†¦show more content†¦These few questions come to mind, and I’m not at all qualified to analyze them. How might Kohlberg or Giligan respond to this scenario? I see Kohlberg’s Stage 1: â€Å"punishment-avoidance and obedience† exhibited quite clearly in the attitudes of the teenagers that disrespected both their peers and the power structure. The same might be said of this behavior in the context of Gilligan’s Stage 1 perception. The old adage that it is not a crime unless you get caught applies quite well here. It appears that the threat of violence dominates the environment, even though the source of this violence is demonstrated by a minority of students. Very little moral reasoning is on display in the hallway of this school and very little is redirection is attempted to enforce a standard of behavior in the hallway. It might be said that the authority figures at this school are also displaying the behavior of Kohlberg and Gilligan’s stage 1 reasoning from a purely defensive standpoint (Hersch, pp. 83–84). b. What observations would you make regarding the cognitive, moral, and social-emotional developmental manifestations of the teen’s reactions occurring here. Does the maxim, â€Å"never trust anyone over 30† ring a bell? In American culture at least, a chasm between the generations has always existed to one degree or another. What is frustrating is the apparent disconnect that adults have in light of this paradigm – a cultural anomaly that has been in existence for hundredsShow MoreRelatedKhasak14018 Words   |  57 Pagessensibility that most readers prefer to read it as an independent novel. It is ironic that the translation happened much later and those who knew him through the English version identified his unique narrative mode with the magic realism of the Latin American masters. The other end of the absurdity was that a fiction writer in Malayalam accused Vijayan of plagiarising an ordinary realistic Marathi novel as that too had a teacher in a one-teacher rural school for its protagonist, like Ravi of The LegendRead MoreANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesantagonist), as, for examp le, in most detective fiction. Internal conflict, on the other hand, is confined to the protagonist. In this case, the opposition is between two or more elements within the protagonist’s own character, as in Joseph Conrad’s â€Å"Heart of Darkness†, when Kurtz struggles (and fails) to subdue the savage instincts concealed beneath his civilized English veneer. Most plots, it should be noted, contain more than one conflict. In some cases, however, these multiple conflicts are presentedRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesThree Ethical Decision Criteria 187 †¢ Improving Creativity in Decision Making 188 Summary and Implications for Managers 190 S A S A S A L L L Self-Assessment Library What Are My Gender Role Perceptions? 166 glOBalization! Chinese Time, North American Time 171 Myth or Science? Creative Decision Making Is a Right-Brain Activity 181 Self-Assessment Library Am I A Deliberate Decision Maker? 183 An Ethical Choice Whose Ethical Standards to Follow? 185 Self-Assessment Library How Creative Am I? 190