CRM 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Total Institution, Deinstitutionalisation, The Inmates
26 Mar 2017
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), asking permission to do certain things, experiencing humiliating verbal acts (someone calling you names) Goffman would say that there is deprivation in prison but there is also the imposition imposing programs and such. Will pose problems = why it is a problematic way to deal with people even if we think it is going to help them. 2 problems total institutions produce: dis-culturation. ), belonging to a certain race, ethnicity, tribal group. How others see you becomes who you are. May be stigmatized: non-stigmatized master statuses doctor, rocket scientist, the funny guy etc. These are the types of things that end up being used as challenges to the idea that we should be institutionalizing people. Goffman is developing a body of context that suggests that total institutions prevent people from being re- socialized and re-integrated. The individual experiences dis-culturation and the institution stigmatizes that individual.
