CRM 2309 Lecture 7: Lec 7 Total Institutions Oct 13
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Changing who you are the effect of total institutions. In-class #1 marking kate: how the processes in prison are intentionally set up the way the are in a means to fundamentally change individuals irving goffman. We are all going to adopt similar ways of acting so that those around us will understand what we are saying and who we are. Playing these roles actually deep impacts your social identity and your sense of who you are what you practice doing you become. Construct as sense of self through interactions with other people and those peoples reactions provide a wealth of symbolic informations that once you interpret will give you crucial details about who it is you are. *really important when talking about total institutions and what they intend to do * !1: set up on purpose to dismantle the person that comes into them and remake the into a new mission so when they leave they"re someone different.