Healing From Hate Social Learning Theory

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In the United States, males are socialized to adhere to masculine norms starting at a young age (Stanaland et al., 2023). Within the prevailing cultural framework, these norms dictate that men must embody traits such as dominance, aggressiveness, and stoicism, while also adhering strictly to heterosexual and non-feminine behavior, and limiting their display of emotions (Stanaland et al., 2023). The criminological theory that I thought would best represent the documentary “Healing from Hate” is the Social Learning Theory. According to Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory, people learn from one another by observing, imitating, modeling, and reinforcing. SLT, an original behaviorist theory, has evolved considerably over the past century as …show more content…

This can influence whether they will engage in similar behavior, because someone who observes a behavior may then imitate it, especially if they consider the model to be someone they respect and who rewards them for doing so. Many hate group members adopt violent ideologies through their social environments. This can be seen in the documentary Healing from Hate when young troubled men were introduced to an environment that was even more toxic and pushed the narrative of belonging. In healing from hate, one of the interviewees said that one day he was smoking and some guy walked up to him, took the joint out of his mouth, and said, “That's what the capitalist and the Jews want him to do to keep him docile” (Healing from hate 1:05) and he believed that. Dr. Michael Kimmel spoke about how the essence of being a man is providing for their family when they can't even buy groceries for them, what's left for white men. Healing from hate (Head 26:49). The fact that other people were being put down instead of them reassured them that they weren't the lowest of the low, since as a man without means to support his family or themselves, they felt like the worst of the …show more content…

(Healing from Hate 22:26) This is consistent with the social learning theory, as it highlights the impact of early experiences on an individual's behavior and choices. McAleer's own experience of rejection and being compared to his sister's “girls are better than you” defiance, anger, and confusion, ultimately led him down the path of joining a hate group. (Healing from hate 26:25) In the reading "Politics of the Anthropocene" by Janet Chan (2017) In the context of criminology, might focus on how environmental changes affect social structures, crime patterns, and justice system responses. Relating this to the documentary and social learning theory, if observing others getting away with environmental destruction or profiting from it without repercussions becomes common, individuals might learn and replicate these behaviors. “a struggle for food and resources, leading to disorders, criminality, conflicts and wars” (Brisman and South,

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