Resocialization

Resocialization

• resocialization – the process of learning new norms, vaues, attitudes, and behaviors
• total institution – a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place
• degredation ceremony – a term coined by Harld Garfinkel to describe an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual’s slef identity and stamping a new identity it its place

Total Institutions