The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman

Reading Assignment

NO PLAGIARISM PLEASE!

2-3 pages double spaced. APA format. Times New Roman size 12 font. ONLY answer 2 questions.

The answers to the questions will come from the chapters of the text. I have attached a copy of the chapter readings. Please use this textbook on the work cited page. I have included a guideline on how the paper needs to be cite

Clarke, Edward J. (ed.).2008.Deviant Behavior: A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance.Seventh Edition. New York: Worth Publishers

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

35. The Social Organization of Deviants, Joel Best, David F. Luckenbill

36. Managing the Action: Sports Bookmakers as Entrepreneurs, Phyllis Coontz

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.

P.S. I have a few more assignments that I will allow more time to complete. This assignment caught me off guard. I always tip 😊

Guide for Citing paper

USE THE APA FORMAT IN CITING TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS FOR REFERENCES (especially include alphabetized LAST NAME OF AUTHOR and DATE as shown):

Becker, H. S. (2008). Career Deviance. In Edward J. Clarke (Ed.), Deviant Behavior: A text-reader in the sociology of deviance (pp. 198-200). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

Hirschi, T. (2008). A Control Theory of Delinquency. In Edward J. Clarke (Ed.), Deviant Behavior: A text-reader in the sociology of deviance (pp. 172-178). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

OR

The CORRECT chapter Number in Clarke can be substituted for pp.:

Becker, H. S. (2008). Career Deviance. In Edward J. Clarke (Ed.), Deviant Behavior: A text-reader in the sociology of deviance (Chapter 17). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

Hirschi, T. (2008). A Control Theory of Delinquency. In Edward J. Clarke (Ed.), Deviant Behavior: A text-reader in the sociology of deviance (Chapter 15). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.