Homeboy industries
1. What theoretical perspective on deviance best represents Father Greg Boyle’s argument that kids are “fleeing something horrendous when they join a gang”?
2. What was the “social reality” surrounding Dolores Mission Parish when Father Greg Boyle arrived in the mid-80’s? Death. Death was the social reality of that time. There were 8 gangs fighting over the same territory, being in the area that they were the was a lack of education and access to education, violence is what almost every child grew up around. Worst of all there was no hope, no hope that things would be better and no hope that they could be better.
3. Why did Father Greg Boyle begin working with gang members in his community?
Because they are the odd man out, they are the “demondnized”, the ones that no one wants to help and he believes that being a Christian we are all one.
4. What do the blossoms represent in the design of Nancy’s art piece?
I saw nothing about this on the video link.
5. What theoretical perspective(s) (or parts of theoretical perspectives) on religion best represent what Homeboy Industries stands for?
Community and culture. We learn from our families and all of that that is around us.
6. Explain the relationship between Father Greg Boyle’s use of the idea of “widening the circle of compassion” and labeling theory.
Father Greg’s circle of compassion and the labeling theory are closely relate but yet so different at the same time, they’re opposites. His “widening the circle of compassion” is the idea of not judging, not putting down, and not turning anyone away because of what they may look like or how they may seem. To his idea we should all get to know, learn and accept one another. It’s almost as thought that he is saying that if we stopped with the labeling theory and step even one step within the circle of compassion this world could e just a little bit better.
7. Why doesn’t Father Greg Boyle want Homeboy Industries to be the “Mcdonalds of gang
2. What was the “social reality” surrounding Dolores Mission Parish when Father Greg Boyle arrived in the mid-80’s? Death. Death was the social reality of that time. There were 8 gangs fighting over the same territory, being in the area that they were the was a lack of education and access to education, violence is what almost every child grew up around. Worst of all there was no hope, no hope that things would be better and no hope that they could be better.
3. Why did Father Greg Boyle begin working with gang members in his community?
Because they are the odd man out, they are the “demondnized”, the ones that no one wants to help and he believes that being a Christian we are all one.
4. What do the blossoms represent in the design of Nancy’s art piece?
I saw nothing about this on the video link.
5. What theoretical perspective(s) (or parts of theoretical perspectives) on religion best represent what Homeboy Industries stands for?
Community and culture. We learn from our families and all of that that is around us.
6. Explain the relationship between Father Greg Boyle’s use of the idea of “widening the circle of compassion” and labeling theory.
Father Greg’s circle of compassion and the labeling theory are closely relate but yet so different at the same time, they’re opposites. His “widening the circle of compassion” is the idea of not judging, not putting down, and not turning anyone away because of what they may look like or how they may seem. To his idea we should all get to know, learn and accept one another. It’s almost as thought that he is saying that if we stopped with the labeling theory and step even one step within the circle of compassion this world could e just a little bit better.
7. Why doesn’t Father Greg Boyle want Homeboy Industries to be the “Mcdonalds of gang