Hate U Give Sociology

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Introduction "The Hate U Give" follows Starr Carter, a 16-year-old navigating the difficulties of her two worlds: her primarily black, low-income neighborhood of Garden Heights and her wealthy, predominantly white private school. Star's life takes a dark turn when she witnesses a white police officer fatally shooting her childhood friend, Khalil, during a traffic stop. As the only witness to the shooting, Starr faces enormous pressure from both the gang in her community as well as the authorities to stay silent. However, inspired by her activist father, Maverick, and motivated by her commitment to justice, Starr decides to speak out against the injustice. Her choice to testify sparked a wave of protests, and challenged her relationships with family, friends, and peers. The movie explores important and current …show more content…

The community's use of defensive mechanisms such as denial, projection, and rationalization is used as coping methods for managing anxiety, coping with high emotions, and sticking together as a community through adversity. Mezzo The family systems theory, developed by Murray Bowen, views the family as one emotional unit. It states a family is a network of interlocking relationships that are best understood when assessed or analyzed in a multigenerational framework (family systems theory PowerPoint). Within the mezzo level of social work, it is important to think about how family as a group impacts the individual. Some of the basic concepts within the family systems theory are family as a system, and differentiation of self. The family systems theory considers the family as a unit or system in which each member is interconnected and affects the functioning of the whole period; changes in one family member or subsystem can impact the entire family system. Ray, 2016, pg. 78. 785).

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