CJ 506-Managing Institutional Careers and Identities

Managing Institutional Careers and Identities
33. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman
34. Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison, Thomas J. Schmid, Richard S. Jones
Organizational Structures, Ideologies, and Recruitment: The Non-institutional Backdrop
35. The Social Organization of Deviants, Joel Best, David F. Luckenbill
36. Managing the Action: Sports Bookmakers as Entrepreneurs, Phyllis Coontz

Points Possible: 20

Deliverable Length: 2-3 pages

Answer two questions:

1. Describe Goffman’s “moral career of the mental patient” through its three phases. How is the patient’s self-identity thus gradually redefined in the context of the hospital as a total institution.

2. Summarize the Schmid and Jones suspended identity dialectic as graphically illustrated in Figure 2 (p. 507). How does this model of identity transformation differ from that associated with brainwashing or conversion?

3. List and discuss Best and Luckenbill’s five propositions for the sophistication of deviant organizations