Question 3

 Picture this. You want to raise children, or assist parents in raising children, who are . The demand that one not inflict poverty and violence upon their children is not a mere parental instinct, but a complex ethical and socio-political insistence. I parent a teenage daughter, and I don't want to live with her in poverty and violence.

In an initial group exercise aimed to delve into the multifaceted global culture encapsulated in Prospera Tedam's (2013) article, I found myself particularly taken by the Kenyan proverb #7, "He who keeps the company of a bad person, themselves becomes bad" (p. 26). This seemingly straightforward saying raises some pretty complex conversations about the kinds of social environments we might be in and what kind of influence they might have on our moral development. At its core, it's about the phenomenon of social contagion and the idea that we're somewhat porous to influences in our negative and positive behavior. This definitely fits the framework of social learning theories—"Oh, that's what you're like, that's what you're doing; now I get it"—but the saying also raises questions about individual agency and the idea that sometimes we might not have as much freedom to act in ways that are good as we should, or as we might think, when we're in a bad environment.


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