SOCY 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gartner, Louise Arbour, Julia Tutwiler
12 Dec 2016
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Prisons outline: classic sociological studies of prison life, historical developments in n. american prisons, gender norms. Classic sociological studies of prison life: looked at how prisons were structured hierarchy, control, etc: Gresham sykes the society of captives: a study of a maximum security. Richard cloward et al. "s theoretical studies in social organization of the. Donald cressey"s the prison: studies in institutional organization and. Research on prison life: erving goffman. He looked at prisons and mental hospital and referred to them as total institution subcultures that emerge within prisons institution where they have daily interactions, sleep, eat together (locked in: prison subcultures. Hierarchy, behavioral patterns among inmates, expectation of individuals, codes, and consequences if retaliation occurs: contemporary research has moved away from subculture and now looks at gender, punishment, etc. Main thing for work was farming, docks, coring for building in. Queen"s and government buildings (carving stones) cheap labor.
