Within a Total Institution, Inmates Are Isolated from Individuals with Whom

question 81

Multiple Choice

Within a total institution, inmates are isolated from individuals with whom they have relationships and they are denied the props and behavioral freedoms that would enable them to claim their preinstitutionalization identities. According to Goffman, this results in:

• A)acts of primary deviance
• B)behaviors that are normative and deemed desirable
• C)the enactment of resistance plans
• D)the formation of strategic task groups
• E)the mortification of self

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