Re: Sense of Community Literatures?

I've been reading an interesting, very accessible, book by Ken Magid
called HIGH RISK: CHILDREN WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE. I originally picked it
up to see if it had any light to shed on people like Ken Lay and Bernie
Ebbers and how they got as far as they did, seemingly with an impaired
conscience. It wasn't too helpful on that front. Rather it focuses on
the problem of attachment in the first two years of life, and how if a
healthy attachment is not possible due to divorce, abuse, teen
parenting, parents lacking affect, orphaning, or other factors children
can grow up to be seriously impaired and in extreme cases serial
killers.  

The book is readable, could be used to prompt good discussions, and
goes some distance toward explaining why our society is so much more
violent that other industrialized nations. I'd recommend it to anyone,
even though it was published in 1988 and in a few respects is not
up-to-date.

Christopher Nye
Berkshire Community College
cnye@berkshirecc.edu

>>> "Paul Loeb" <Loeb@soulofacitizen.org> - 7/29/02 6:13 PM >>>
I definitely wouldn't use Putnam. Valuable work, but tremendously
academic,
hard to get through for people with advanced degrees, let along
minimal
educations.

Robert Gordon has a terrific book of reflections on teaching in prison
and
reflections by inmates called The Funhouse Mirror, paperback,
Washington
State Univ press. You can check it out on Amazon.


Paul Loeb
 Author Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time
www.soulofacitizen.org


-----Original Message-----
From: service-learning-owner@csf.colorado.edu
[mailto:service-learning-owner@csf.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Deb
Mashek
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:13 AM
To: sl@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Sense of Community Literatures?


Dear Colleagues,

I'm working with a graduate student at George Mason University on a
research project designed to assess prison inmates' sense of being
connected with the greater community.  We're on the lookout for useful
literatures and measures that address the constructs of connectedness,
sense of community, dissociation from community and others, and
anonymity.

Can you recommend any literatures, particular references, etc?

Thank you in advance for your advice and assistance!

Sincerely,

Deb


Debra J. Mashek, Ph.D.
Human Emotions Research Lab
Department of Psychology
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA  22030-4444

E-mail: dmashek@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-4251
Fax: 703-993-1335