SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mantra, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

To change people radically, you isolate them and put them under a lot of physical and mental pressure. Sports teams, frats, sororities: make people feel like they"re special because they are apart of something. Recruit is striped of everything that defines their identity. Destroying the individual but building up a unit. Who would take a gun and go into the fire storm alone. If you don"t do what we want Chanting a mantra every morning as they wake up. Being told to take their time even though that"s not true. Being put through exercises and being told what will happen to them if they don"t. Each activity is designed to be completable by most people. All yelling and harassment has a purpose: carefully calculated amount of added stress. Armies try to catch their soldiers young because they can be convinced of heroism and lack of fear. We put limits on our predisposed aggression as we grow up.