Sociology 2306 Group Project "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1. In what ways did the mental hospital serve to perpetuate the dependency of its patients?

2. How could labeling theory be used to illuminate the dynamics of the mental hospital, as portrayed in this movie?

3. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States experienced a deinstitutionalization movement that affected mental hospitals, institutions for the mentally retarded, and juvenile corrections institutions. How might this movie have contributed to that movement?

4. What consequences did the diagnosis of "mental illness" have for interactions between staff and patients in the hospital portrayed in this movie?