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    Erving Goffman coined the term "resocialization" to refer to the process by which individuals replace old behaviors and identities with new ones when entering a new social environment or culture. Resocialization can be voluntary, such as religious conversion or medical treatment, or involuntary, as occurs in total institutions like prisons, military boot camps, or mental hospitals that isolate people and require them to adopt new norms. The process often involves giving up personal possessions and previous social roles to take on new identities defined by the institution. While some adapt easily, others respond with hostility to resocialization, making it an intense process that tears down old senses of self and constructs new ones according to new social rules and expectations.

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    Erving Goffman coined the term "resocialization" to refer to the process by which individuals replace old behaviors and identities with new ones when entering a new social environment or culture. Resocialization can be voluntary, such as religious conversion or medical treatment, or involuntary, as occurs in total institutions like prisons, military boot camps, or mental hospitals that isolate people and require them to adopt new norms. The process often involves giving up personal possessions and previous social roles to take on new identities defined by the institution. While some adapt easily, others respond with hostility to resocialization, making it an intense process that tears down old senses of self and constructs new ones according to new social rules and expectations.

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    Erving Goffman coined the term "resocialization" to refer to the process by which individuals replace old behaviors and identities with new ones when entering a new social environment or culture. Resocialization can be voluntary, such as religious conversion or medical treatment, or involuntary, as occurs in total institutions like prisons, military boot camps, or mental hospitals that isolate people and require them to adopt new norms. The process often involves giving up personal possessions and previous social roles to take on new identities defined by the institution. While some adapt easily, others respond with hostility to resocialization, making it an intense process that tears down old senses of self and constructs new ones according to new social rules and expectations.

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    Resocialization: 

    Terminology coined by Erving Goffiman


    “The learning process by which old behaviors are replaced by new ones.”
    This refers to the process whereby an individual or a group, are brought in contact with a new
    culture, which requires them to leave behind their old identity and take up a new one. During this
    process, they are required to learn the norms, values, and ways of life into the new environment
    or the setting which they are brought in contact with. This requires, as the first step, for the
    individual to give up or forget their previous values and at times even their identity and adopt the
    one specific to their environment. This process is often deliberate and intense.
    Erving Goffman had defined the term resocialization as a process of tearing down and building
    up individuals’ role and socially constructed sense of self.

     Types of resocialization

    Voluntary and involuntary


    Voluntary resocialization occurs when someone enter a new status of his own free will (e.g
    medical or psychological treatment or religious conversion).
    Involuntary resocialization occurs against a person’s wishes and generally takes place within a
    total institution. A place where people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of
    time and come under the control of the officials who run the institution (e.g military boot camps,
    prisons, mental hospital and residential schools)
    Resocialization may be mild and take place in simpler ways, such as when a United states may
    move to a country like Japan and interact with their culture and find that they are disciplined and
    their rules of eating, working and doing other such things are more stringent than those of United
    states. This will require the immigrant to then unlearn the behavior and habits of the previous
    country, in this case, United states and adopt that of Japan. (voluntary resocialization)
    Although resocialization is not always a mild process, it is more common to total institutions and
    religious cults, the former are institutions which are cut off from the rest of the society and
    function on the strict laws and regulations of their own. These play the role of isolating people
    from the larger society and thus require those participating in them to often give up everything
    that they have been taught when they were a part of the larger society. Some examples of total
    institutions are prisons, military, old age homes, even at times mental institutions as studied by
    Erving Goffman. This type of resocialization is called Involuntary.
    These total institutions start by taking away the previous identities of people, this is often done
    by taking away their personal possessions, e.g. those who are becoming a part of the old age
    homes are required to give up their normal interaction with their families and often their very
    own houses and shift into rooms, that may or may not be shared with others in the home. They
    have to adjust to now being taken care of by those other than their own family members.

    One of the harshest forms of resocialization is seen in the case of the military training, during
    this those who wish to be a part of the military are expected to often give up their lifestyle of
    luxury and adapt to the lifestyle of discipline and uniformity. Here often they are required to cut
    their hair short and wear uniforms and go through rigorous physical training as a part of their
    daily routine.

    One thing that is to be kept in mind, however, is that people do not respond to their
    resocialization in the same way, while one may adopt without much problem, the others,
    however, may become hostile to the situation. Thus, one can see that the process of
    resocialization can be intense.

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