Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2011
VIII, 280 pages
978-0-230-34860-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them around the clock - and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VIII, 280 p.
File size
2,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-230-34860-8 (9780230348608)
DOI
10.1057/9780230348608
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Book
10/2011
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Person
SUSIE SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of
Shyness and Society
and
Making Sense of Everyday Life,
alongside articles about shyness, Erving Goffman, swimming and total institutions.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Totally Committed Re-Inventive Institutions Religious and Spiritual Communities Military Camps Secret Societies and Fraternities Therapeutic Clinics Education and Enrichment Virtual Institutions Conclusion Bibliography Index
