The most familiar type of punishment for deviant behavior seen in individuals who perpetrate immoral acts is to send them to a correctional facility. Criminals will promptly acknowledge their standing as a prisoner as well as develop a new personality. Functionalism can be explained as the interdependence of various aspects of society to create a place where an individual’s needs are met. Alternatively, Coser (1957) explains that the social conflict theory is a view based upon society being a complex system distinguished by inequality and conflict that prompt social change. Moreover, the class that maintains power will undoubtedly discover ways to subside other classes who the dominant group views as a threat. The social conflict theory perceives …show more content…
Structural Functionalism could be argued from a view that the prisoners are in a correctional facility and are regarded as sub-human, moderately since they were sub-human; convicted criminals, it is discerned as having hardly any rights compared to law-abiding citizens. This indicates that the correctional facility and the unpleasant things that happen in it, occurs because of the demand for a societal retribution to law-breakers, to provide an living exemplar to the community of what happens to criminals. The cruelty of the correctional facility is inevitable as a disincentive to crime; the small number of inmates shall be mistreated so the others do not …show more content…
For instance, if there were no discipline in the correctional facility, a riot would likely occur due to the hostile and disobedient character of the inmates. However, if there were a riot to ensue, there would be much distress on the guards, distress on the community neighboring the correctional facility, and surely a substantial amount of distress on the prisoners. Considering the humanistic nature of The Shawshank Redemption, the practical view of the correctional facility, would be that of Symbolic Interaction. One could view the correctional facility as a common ground, all of the different levels of authority within the system that had emerged. The barbarism of the guards would be viewed as their strive to maintain their higher-ranking status over the prisoners. The cruelty of the prisoners, as in the Conflict theory, would be viewed as there strive to reinforce a position to which they can sustain