Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Should have read

Have you ever bullshitted your way through a reading?

I did this tuesday morning, at 10:30am I attend Contemporary Social Theory. Yeah that shit is boring, but the theorie are interesting. Today we spoke on Erving Goffman it has that nice ring to doesn't it.
Anyway we discussed an excerpt from Asylum it shed a new light on the recidivism (people going back to prison). Goffman explains that an individual does something and get imprisoned stripped of their idenity, giving a number and a institutional tools that everyone else has making them just a number in a system. Now the person feels they have to create a sense of self in this system and sometimes that self rebels which makes the systems keep the person locked up because they started doing what the system told them not to. It works better when its about crazy people but this works too.

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