SOC 1100 Lecture 2: SOC1100 Lecture 2: LEC#2(01:20:16)
13 Feb 2016
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Follows teenage civilians through their journey to becoming marines. If you want to change people quickly and radically, you isolate them and apply enormous amounts of physical and mental pressure; pushing them towards the only accepted/desired behaviour in that isolated community. The first step to creating a soldier out of a civilian is to strip the recruit of all of their civilian identity (hair, clothes, etc. ) Use the idea of what a man is. A man, by the army standards, must be strong, have endurance and be essentially unbreakable both emotionally and physically. If the recruits show weakness or lack of physical physique/ability, they are ridiculed, humiliated and ostracized for being less than compared to the other men. The idea of the army is to break the spirit of the civilian and essentially rebuild a new person from the ground up, training them to be real men.
