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SOCIALIZATION

UNIT 3

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Resocialization

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What does a woman who has just become a nun have in common with a man who has just divorced?

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Resocialization

  • resocialization – the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors
    • a new boss who insists on a different way of doing things
    • when students leave high school and start college
    • take on a new faith or join a club or a cult

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Total Institution

  • total institution – a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place
    • boot camps
    • prisons
    • concentration camps
    • convents
    • boarding schools
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Total Institution

  • degradation ceremony – an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual’s self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place
    • fingerprinting
    • photographing
    • shaving the head
    • banning the individual’s personal identity kit (jewelry, hairstyles, clothing, and other body decorations used to express individuality)

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Total Institution

  • isolated from the public
  • walls, bars, or other barriers are used to keep inmates in and outsiders out
  • suppress preexisting statuses
    • E.g., spouse, parent, worker, student