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

Erving Goffman

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 1961 (view 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 roun...

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