SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Resocialization, Critical Role, Political Positions Of Ronald Reagan
13 Jul 2019
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The process of unlearning old ways and learning new ways upon moving into a significantly different social environment. Occurs when someone starts school, changes schools, starts a new job, retires, undergoes a religious conversion, etc. This type of resocialization is often marked by a rite of passage, a ritual or ceremony signaling a change of status. Total institutions resocialize by regulating all aspects of a person"s life (eg. , prisons, military, residential schools) *take-home exam. ^-one process used in total institutions to resocialize is the degradation ceremony. A rite of passage where a person"s identity is stripped away (e. g. , in some prisons a person"s name is replaced with a number) Education and socialization: socialization provides a motivation for standardized education systems. Resocialization in schools: refers to the process of departing from former cultural or behavioural patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one"s life.
