Transcript 5.TheAnti_SocialinUsAllMITCHELL

The Anti-Social in Us All
Michael Mitchell, LCSW
Clinical Director
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The Pro-Social Process
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Pro-social Behavior
• Definition: “Voluntary actions that are intended
to help or benefit another individual or group of
individuals” (N Eisenberg, 1989)
• Moral development: Piaget, Kohlberg, Hoffman
• Stage developed
– Maturing from Self-focus to
Other-focused
• Innate and learned factors
– Internal characteristics
– External inputs
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nurturance
sustenance
reciprocity
love
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Pro-social Culture
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The “Pro-Social Club”
“take care of your own needs,
but remember:
do unto others as you would
have them do unto you”
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Social capital
•Obligations
•Expectations
•Trustworthiness
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Anti-social process
Pro-social
Anti-social
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sustenance
shelter
individuality
belonging
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Family
Child
Community
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“It’s all about me”
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Predictive Variables
• Laub and Sampson
– “Crime in the
Making” (1993)
– 500 delinquent/500
non-delinquent boys
from Boston
neighborhoods
• child volatile
temperament
• poor social skills
• family abuse and
deprivation
• school failure and
community
impoverishment
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Anti-social entrenchment
Entitlement
Need
Invalidation
Pro-social
Disengagement
Neutralizations
Entrenched
Anti-social
Self
Narcissistic
Wounding
Inadequacy
“If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em”
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Pro-social emotions
Guilt
Neutralizations
Shame
Don’t worry , be happy
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What are Neutralizations?
Anti-social
behavior/attitudes
Pro-social forces
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Techniques of Neutralization
Sykes and Matza (1957)
Neutralization
are methods of
rationalizing antisocial behavior in
order to reduce
pro-social
distress
Techniques
• Denial of responsibility ("I
didn't mean it")
• Denial of injury ("I didn't
really hurt anybody")
• Denial of the victim ("they
had it coming to them")
• Condemnation of the
condemners ("everybody's
picking on me")
• Appeal to higher loyalties ("I
didn't do it for myself").
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The Replacement
Culture
Pro-social culture
Gang
Cult
Peer Group
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Distorted code
of
compliance
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