i have to write an essay which will be based on an article. can you help me generate a main idea and 3 supporting which can help me to do the writing work better. Appearance: Its Social MeaningBy Lorne Tepperman In his classic sociological work Asylums, Erving Goffman notes that the first step taken by a total institution, suchas a prison or mental hospital is to re-socialize an inmate, by separating the inmate from old identities and identifiers.1Interestingly, this process begins by changingthe inmate’s appearance—for example, by forcing the inmate to wear an institutional uniform, while removing allindividual identifiers such as jewellery or personal assets. Often the inmate is forced to wear a generic hairstyle, whichis another way of regimenting the body andeliminating individuality. The loss of one’s own clothing signifies the loss of an old identity and social status. Theadoption of an institutional uniform represents entry into a low-status community of identical inmates or subjects. Inthis real sense, the old maxim is true that “clothes make the man” (or woman). Humble clothes make humble people.Consider the humble uniforms worn by members of the Salvation Army—a religious organization devoted tourban good works, originally involving the moral uplift of fallen people. Winston notes that the popular image of Salvation Army women changed during the period1880-1918, due in part to their adoption of plain, unfashionable clothing, which enabled them to enter public placessuch as saloons to do their work without criticism.2 So dressed, Salvation Army women practised spiritual warfare onestablishments that promoted sin and vice. Their uniform, dramatically severe, came to represent traditional serviceand old-fashioned […]
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