Lecture 8 Deviance Part II 02 28 2014 Stanford Prison Experiment Quiet Rage by Phillip Zimbardo Playing Roles the guards and prisoners performed their front with the costume and behavior o Real self not coherent self but just depends upon the situation E g Sadistic masochistic guard in the prison or nice guy in society which role is his true self If he weren t socialized by society to be nice then perhaps his evil side would come out Someone had to play the leader within the role of the guards there will be structural positions of the good cop and the bad cop Whoever happens to occupy those positions are going to act out those roles o We are socialized into a lot of different role argument to any inherent character These personalities have been developed socially Depth Model drives within us society has a role of suppressing those drives or letting it come out Deep side to us defined as either naturally good or naturally bad Society either impedes or nurtures this inner self Flat or Horizontal Model there is no thing deep inside us that is being depressed we are sum total of all the different modes of socialization All the different types of the people we socialize into on the one hand the role of being a nice person or from TV One or the other isn t necessarily definitive of the true self Different social context bring out a part of yourself depending on the situation o Sociological mode a product of social factors it is learned We have all of this in us fundamental contradictory role Personality is not stable we are whatever context we are in Labeling Theory labels stick and there was a shift from primary to secondary deviance As the experiment went on they began to forget who they really were they internalized their roles Total institutions an institution in which one is totally immerses and that controls all the basics of day to day life no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life and all activities occurs in the same place and under the same single authority Resocializing stripping them off their previous identity they began to fully adopt the roles and new norms of the institution Individual vs Self
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