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Resocialization

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Resocialization is the process of discarding learned norms and adopting new ones, usually on entering a setting organized around a different way of life.

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Recruits, novices, and long-term patients each learn a new set of rules by unlearning old ones.

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Resocialization requires abandoning norms, which is what makes it harder than first learning.