Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Erving Goffman

386 pages first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology informative slow-paced
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A 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...

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