1. Response Study - The Pathology of Imprisonment
... in their roles. This exemplifies Labeling Theory, in which labels are applied to individuals in an effort to categorize and brand them, and which results in a negative internalization and perception of reality (Cragun & Cragun, page 149, paragraph 2, Symbolic Interactionism - Labeling Theory). Labeling elicited pathological behaviors when applied to participants in a prison environment and modified those individuals' fundamental ... for the night. Dramatic changes were evident in virtually every aspect of behavior as role perception became reality. The experiment illustrated the shockin...
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