... not. By not wearing the standard clothing Carter refuses to assimilate into the general population of the prison, thus keeping his own identity, pluralism. Carter also employs the idea of sociological imagination while serving his time in prison. The idea of socialization in the prison is that the warden is the top official with the guards below him and then the ... , that they are no longer free. The very freedom that the other inmates, guilty or not, have come to accept as lost, is only lost to them because of the perspective they take on the situation. The other inmates derive their f...

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