CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, Disfigurement, Mortified
8 Feb 2013
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Prisonization (clemmer, 1958[1940]: pains of imprisonment (sykes, 1958) Modes of adaptation: total institutions (goffman, 1961) Social processes that destroy one"s identity and replaces it with another. A social process whereby a new prisoner comes to adopt the culture of the carceral milieu. Pointing to the number of ways that incarceration has experienced this as type of harm. Writing about prison in the us, increasing the focus of prison. Shows some of the ways that prison undermines its own objectives how people experience the incarceration process, not how it helps with rehab but dehabilitation. Sexual confusion as it relates to one"s identity. All activities take place in one location under one authority. All activities take place in groups where members are treated similarly. All activities are imposed and take place according to a strict schedule. All activities are enforced to meet stated institutional objectives.
