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Institutionalized Deviance And Control In Shawshank Redemption

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Would you believe me if I told you that you would see so many sociological behaviors in a prison? In the movie Shawshank Redemption, you will see how a person who is institutionalized, deviance and control, and social construction of reality. A person changes and adjusts to their surroundings. In the movie you can see how much damage being institutionalized has made. In the movie Brooks was institutionalized for so many years and the day finally cam where he got released from prison and saw the real world. The real world was a major shock to him because he lived in a different world and over night he had to transition to the real world. This resocialization was too much to handle and it drove him to commit suicide. Deviance & Control- In the

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