Erving Goffman Unisex Multicolor Asylums: Essays On The Social Situation Of Mental Patients And Large

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Erving Goffman

AsylumsEssays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates\nAuthor(s): Erving Goffman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: AldineTransaction\nISBN-13: 9780202309712, 978-0202309712\nSynopsis\nA total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self.\n\nEach of the essays in this book were intended to focus on the same issue--the inm.