IDS 400 ( week 6)

For your response posts, address the following:

1. What research question might you ask about your peers' choice of topic based on the

information they shared?

Remember, this assignment is graded on the quality of your initial post and at least two response

posts to your classmates. If you refer to any sources, be sure to include an attribution (or citation)

to the resource.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.

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Peer 1:

Gloria Vasquez

For today’s discussion, I would like to further analyze the 16th and 17th

Century Scottish Witch Trials through a social science lens. During this time

period, people were very societal and dependent on their surroundings. Their

human nature was to follow the crowd and societal norms. The so-called

witches or strange activities were only foreign to those who could not believe

in something other than their own beliefs. People relied heavily on their

Christianity and the beliefs of the church, not science to prove or disprove what

they were seeing. Without science and factual evidence, people were easily

persuaded and influenced into a bandwagon society. A lack of education

created an ideal situation for leadership within a society to push their own

ideology and thoughts into the community.

People are often fearful of going against the church or its advocates in

fear of retribution as well. Even if the people within these communities did not

wholeheartedly believe the women were witches, they could have been going

along with the beliefs and actions of the community in order to survive. The

witch trials were also gender driven and as the article mentioned, a way for

men who feared being manipulated or overtaken by women to deal with the

threat (Solly, 2019).

Solly, M. (2019, September 26). This map shows the scale of 16th- and

17th-century Scottish witch hunts. Smart News. Retrieved March 17, 2023,

from

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-visualizes-scale-16th-and-

17th-century-scottish-witch-hunts-180973226/

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Peer 2 :

Madison Carmon

Hello class,

Looking at the previous discussions, I have decided to write about 3-1 discussion. Diversity and

history have a very sensitive connection, this brings culture as well. As American diverse in the

culture and also in the people we have become the diversity. From "the fighting 69th to Harelm

Hell-fighters." The fighting 69th was the first all Irish unit to establish during civil war in New

York. The Irish were all discriminated and treated with disrespect in the 19th century. This

example has led me to understand how different cultural and diversity come together and bring

the fight into one. Introducing new cultural music to different countries, expand love and peace.