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- noun The
psychological readjustment of a person to conform to the norms ofsociety (e.g. after beinginstitutionalized )
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is called "resocialization" and is a proven strategy, although greatly "labor intensive."
NOW on PBS 2009
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Raynor had gone AWOL rather than face resocialization.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Marija Tosheva is Program Director of Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS), a Macedonian NGO which since 1996 has run outreach and advocacy programs with sex workers and drug users, promoting safer behavior and enabling access to legal, health and social services, as well as resocialization and reintegration of sex workers, drug users, and their families.
Video screening: NYC, July 23, Sex worker advocates in Macedonia « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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Raynor had gone AWOL rather than face resocialization.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Those memories were chased away when Jim thought about how he, Tychus, and the rest of the Devils had been slated for resocialization by their unit commander, Colonel Javier Vander-spool.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Those memories were chased away when Jim thought about how he, Tychus, and the rest of the Devils had been slated for resocialization by their unit commander, Colonel Javier Vander-spool.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Many of the Friday morning classes are large, introductory lectures dominated by impressionable freshman and sophomores (kudos to the administration for the clever resocialization strategy.)
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Phase: Piggy Back, Inc., a drug-free community-based resocialization corporation located in Harlem for the past 42 years.
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"The sentence was completed with its goal of re-education, rehabilitation and resocialization, which permits her to finish the sentence in liberty," the judge said.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"The sentence was completed with its goal of re-education, rehabilitation and resocialization, which permits her to finish the sentence in liberty," the judge said.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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