blog schedule.
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blog 29 |
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blog subject:How is social order maintained among your people group? What is the system of social control and punishment. Note any differences or conflicts between the people group’s way of doing this and the national system (especially in minority situations). |
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resource questions for blog research:social control/punishment |
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| Are certain rules of the society relaxed during the festival period? How long does the lax period last? For whom are the rules relaxed? What is the purpose of this liberty? | |
| To what degree does the group restrict interaction with members of other groups? | |
| How much does the father play with the child? How long do the parents control the child’s choices? Is there a generation gap? How do people try to bridge it? | |
| How important is the child’s peer group in socializing the child? | |
| How important are other adults in socializing the child? | |
| Who enforces the taboo? | |
| Are members of the family/clan/village/larger social grouping ever avoided because of what they have done? How strong is the avoidance? What had they done? | |
| What are the results if these rules (of widowhood) are not obeyed? | |
| Which deeds get social recognition? | |
| For what offenses is a child punished? | |
| What crimes or wrongs does a family punish? | |
| What is punished by the clan/village/larger social grouping? How do they punish? | |
| How is bravery rewarded? | |
| How does the group punish? | |
| By what age is the child expected to be toilet trained? If they are not, what happens? | |
| If the child is delayed in their toilet training who punishes the child and how? | |
| Who must a woman avoid? | |
| Who must a man avoid? | |
| For what offenses is a child punished? | |
| What crimes or wrongs does a family punish? | |
| What is punished by the clan/village/larger social grouping? | |
| Are members of the family/clan/village/larger social grouping ever avoided because of deeds? What deeds would cause such treatment? How strong is the avoidance? Must the culprits go away? | |
| What wrongs does the group punish? | |
| If children are killed at birth, who does the killing? Is this considered good? Is it punished? Who does the punishing? How? Does the relevant deity care? Is he/she involved in the punishing? | |
| What is worst – guilt (of breaking a moral code), shame (and the breaking of relationship), or defilement (ritual uncleanness)? | |
| What moral system do they actually try to live by? | |
| From what you have experienced so far, what would you suggest as the order of importance for fear, guilt and shame in the worldview of the people around you? What makes you think this? | |
| Do they have any distinct kinds of humour? | |
| How does the community settle quarrels? | |
| What are their ideas of sin? | |