This assignment is based on the
Cult-Induced Model of Violence Perpetration, which posits
that social
psychological cult context manipulations are key in
transforming normal
people into violence perpetrations. Please review the lecture
on this
model and its three stages of transformation:Pre-existing
vulerabiliy: Alienation (i.e., “susceptible alienated” are most
vulnerable to cult induction)Stage
1: Depluralization (relinquishment of previous personal
identity and
group affiliations and replacememt with cult group
identification) –
manipulations: social isolation, depersonalization elements
and
collective group activities; transformation to attachment to
leader and
commitment to cult).Stage 2: Self-Deindividuation
(anonymity through conformity, increasing identification with
and
emotional connection/dependency on charismatic cult leader
and its
members, collective rituals, internalizing norms of obedience
and submergence of self into cult ideology; and
Other-Deindividuation (propagandizing “out-groups” as bad,
emotional transformation = hatred of out groups); andStage 3:
Dehumanization (Out-group as subhuman) and Demonization (Out-groups
as evil) –> behavioral
transformation –> aggression/violence (Dehumanization) and
Demonization (justification – without remorse –> continued
violence
perpetration)Then, Identify elements of each of these three
stages in either the Aum Shinrykio cult (Japanese sarin gas
cult), or
the People’s Temple cult, as weblinks in this module; or
alternatively,
choose another violent cult (provide the link or article
summary).
Paper length two pages, double-spaced as Word document
uploaded here. Due Date: Tuesday night, July 29, 2014, at midnight.
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