SOCI 100 Chapter Notes -Total Institution, Civil Death, Gwynne Dyer
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Resocialization radically changing an inmate"s personality by carefully controlling the environment: the ti is the inmate"s entire world easier to bring about change or compliance, two part process. Staff breaks down the inmate"s identity mortifications of self . Staff tries to build a new self for the inmate through a system of rewards and punishments: can leave some institutionalized doesn"t have the capacity for independent living. Key fact of ti handling of many human needs by the organization of whole blocks of people whether this is a necessary or effective mean of social organization. Individuals who were work oriented in the outside world are demoralized by the work system in. Incompatibility between tis and the basic work-payment structure of our society. Ti social hybrid between residential community and formal organization. Disculturation when an inmate stays in a ti long enough that he is untrained and temporarily incapable of daily life on the outside (institutionalized)
