Roger Williams called his new home of Rhode Island, Rogue’s Island because it attracted so many misfits. In 1634, the New England officials tried to use reason and scripture against the wayward. Since the Puritans believed they had the whole truth, anyone with whom they reasoned and who then refused to agree with them had to be sinning against one’s own conscience, and this made a criminal out of the individual. We tend to see group differences in behavior (between nations, races, social classes, and so forth) as rooted in the different beliefs and values share within each group, which are in turn generally seem to arise from the different ways people in these groups have been socialized from early in life. Roger Williams came to American to be a voice for civil order, and the citizens were hungry to hears the message of grace. It is important and worthwhile to distinguish among the people a number of purposes in a sociocultural system, which is a set of person and social positions or roles that possess both a culture and a social structure. A culture is a set of cognitive and evaluative beliefs—beliefs about what is or what ought to be—that are shared by the members of a social system and transmitted to new members. A social structure is a persisting and bounded pattern of social relationships (or pattern of behavioral interactions) among the units (that is, persons or positions) in a social system. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Anne Hutchinson was a midwife and she also held church meetings church meetings in her house, she claimed that she heard the Spirit of God speaking to her own soul. Women were not allowed to be the head of the church. Anne Hutchinson was accused of preaching falsely; she also violated good practice and church order because she was a woman preaching to men. She was preaching to sixty or eighty people.  At that time Governor Winthrop had the mandate to act fast, but he was reluctant to banish anyone from the knit community he desired. During a twenty-four-day synod in which her case was discussed—by now minsters were differing with each other, and the World closed in of Mrs. Hutchinson. In the midst of the turmoil her ally and friend Mary Dyer gave birth to a repulsive monster. Midwife Hutchinson desperately hurried to hide the creature from view, but neighbors glimpsed it and soon word spread that the devil was especially busy among Massachusetts troublemakers. The accusers of Anne Hutchinson were also her judges, and they made no pretense of trial by jury, due process, or even presenting clear charges. She wanted to know what law she had broken. They charged the Fifth Commandment because while it only demanded respect for father and mother, they interpreted it to include all other authority in church and state as well. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Values and beliefs are transmitted rather then directly (though not always consciously or intentionally) from agents of socialization to targets through mechanisms such as learning, identification, or internalization. According to Freudian theory, we learn the values of our culture by identifying with parents or others who hold these values and hence take these values as our own. Governor Winthrop, pressing his advantage, called for and received the guilty verdict, so the accusers and judges now turned into sentencers. Almost all members of the General Court found Anne Hutchinson unfit for their society and decreed that she must be imprisoned first and then banished out of their liberties. Not ready to retire, Mrs. Hutchinson wanted to know why she was being banished. “Say no more,” she heard, “the court knows whereof and is satisfied.” Underlying all their anxieties, the Boston Leaders feared that England might find them guilty of tolerating seditious libel, a crime against which they decided to pass their own laws—after the incident. Anne Hutching took her time going into exile. The Reverend John Wilson took delight in reading the order that expelled her, commanding her in the name of Jesus Christ to withdraw as a leper out of the congregation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

 The prohibition was accepted because it was supported by strong inner forces; it proved to be stronger than anything else. The Prohibitions maintained themselves from generation to generation, perhaps only as the result of a tradition set up by paternal and social authority. An individual, who has violated a taboo, becomes oneself taboo because one has the dangerous property of tempting other to follow one’s example. Sometime later, the great disturber of the peace of Boston also gave birth to a monster, no doubt a menopausal baby who seemed to the whispers to be a divine judgment. Mrs. Hutchinson’s end was violent. After her husband died she moved to Long Island Sound. There, in the conflict that Governor Kieft triggered by foolish policies, Indians attacked and tomahawked her and five children to death. And there was not any light seen, neither fire, nor glimmer, neither Sun, nor Moon, nor the Stars, for so great were the mists of darkness which were upon the face of the land. And it came to pass that it did last for the space of three days that there was no light seen; and there was great mouring and howling and weeping among all the people continually; yeah, great were the groanings of the people, because the darkness and the great destruction which had come upon them. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

We have established what is practically the most important point in the psychological correspondence between taboo and compulsion neurosis. Research on socialization within the family indicates that children are more influenced by the structure of the family (for example, size, birth order, sibling structure and so forth) than by the values and beliefs that the parents or family share and try to transmit. In looking at the child’s relation to the parents and other socializing agents, a structural approach emphasizes the pattern of the interpersonal relationship where a cultural approach focuses more on the content of the relationship (that is, the ideas and beliefs being communicated). Patterns of discipline (for example, physical punishment verses guilt induction verses reasoning) have been shown to sometimes have greater effect on the child than the values, beliefs, or behavior the discipline is used to promote. Physically punishing children for aggressive behavior tends, paradoxically, to increase their aggressiveness. That is probably while the governors’ and others punished, banished, and later terminated the life of Mrs. Hutchinson and her children, especially because they no longer had a male, their father, to protect them. May God’s purpose and will be relived in out lives and may we accept that will. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5