SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pepper Spray, Social Control Theory
21 Dec 2013
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Topics of discussion + readings: weeks 1-4. Quiz: take one group in the movie and apply the process of exclusion on the group. Inmates (group): sprayed with a can of pepper spray if don"t follow the. Left burns on the body (marking the difference can observably see their punishment form of shaming) If inmates swore, or refused to take medication, they would be sprayed (stigmatizing them w/ negative attributes as bad people) Being used to maintain absolute terror (the burns on the bodies) Excluding the difference: putting inmates in a cell for 24 hours with no interaction; away from families, other prisoners. Administering the different persons: watching an alcoholic women with a mesh on her head for 15-20 minute sessions, Mentally ill patients have died due to torturing practices. Person with schizophrenia placed on a chair for 6 hrs; dies of a blood-clot.
