Other theoretical frameworks Flashcards
What about role theory?
considers most of everyday activity to be the acting-out of socially defined categories (e.g., mother, manager, teacher). Each role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms, and behaviors that a person has to face and fulfill. The model is based on the observation that people behave in a predictable way, and that an individual’s behavior is context specific, based on social position and other factors.
To change behavior, change or redefine their role- change role expectations held by others
Role also determines beliefs and attitudes
What about gender theoretical lens?
patriarchal belief systems in which masculinity is a product of gender inequality and is associated with male toughness and aggression, male dominance
Traditional masculinity is characterized particularly by toughness because it is through toughness norms and violence that men demonstrate their “realness”
Therefore, in contrast to those in gender-egalitarian neighborhoods, boys in gender-inegalitarian neighborhoods are more likely to employ violent behavior as a means of showing others that they are strong, powerful, and “real” men.
What about life course perspective?
cumulative impacts of chronic exposures
intergenerational transmission of risk and protective factors
adolescence and emerging adulthood as a particularly important developmental period,
homicide places Black males at disproportionate risk for experiencing the traumatic loss of a peer and becoming homicide survivors.
For Black males growing up in contexts of long-term risk, how often (frequency) and when (developmental timing) the traumatic loss of homicide occurs across the life course may produce varying developmental implications.15,16,26,27 : posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),9 anxiety and depression,11 traumatic and complicated grief,5,10,28 substance abuse,13 emotional reactivity,12 and a hindered ability to function.
From a life course perspective,29,30 life events that happen before or after established developmental norms are considered off-time and pose implications for subsequent development.15,26,27 Consequently, the timing of homicide deaths along the developmental trajectories of survivors can shape their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral resources, responses, and outcomes.
As youths approach adolescence and transitioned to adulthood, the peer group increased in its developmental importance.
What about critical race theory?
emerged from a group of young legal scholars as a response to Critical Legal Studies which they argued overemphasized the role of class and underemphasized the role of race in structural oppression.
Key tenants of the theory relevant to the discussion of community gun violence include (1) that racism is ordinary, it is experienced every day by most people of color, and it is difficult to address because it is not acknowledged, (2) that White supremacy serves psychic and material purposes for the dominant White group, (3) that race is socially constructed (i.e. no biologic or genetic determinants) through social interactions, and (4) that narrative and counter-storytelling from members of oppressed groups are central to challenge and change racially oppressive structures (Delgado & Stefancic, 2017).
Critical Race Theory places modern civil rights issues in broader perspectives that include the historical contexts of Black oppression and is driven by a goal to both describe and change social injustices (White et al., 2018).
CRT: relevant to racist criminal legal system, over/under policing, economic disenfranchisement
From this perspective, these racist criminal-legal system practices represent modern versions of historical structural violence that originated from the slave trade and have continued through Jim Crow era policies and the present day (Burrell et al., 2021). By contextualizing these practices within their broader historical context, it is more evident how racism is structurally embedded within institutions such as the police, and how police serve as manifestations of every day racism intended to maintain White supremacy (Moore et al., 2018).
Tell me more about the grey structural factors not addressed in scope of work. Examples? Limitations of not including?
Historic redlining, vacant housing, racialized economic segregation, education gaps, wealth and employment gap, lead poisoning, unfair legal justice system, subprime mortgage lending
Mudia: intersection redlining and more current residential segregation measured by the index of concentration of the extremes
Not included: drug policies, how that has led to police enforcement, disproportionate sentencing of crack v cocaine, legalization of marijuana
What about a program theory of change?
Understanding of mechanisms
Can narrow the questions asked which increase likelihood of helpful results
Don’t need to know how electronics work to evaluate a computer
If site directors theories of change are evaluated, more useful than mine
