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Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Hardcover

Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0230232019
ISBN13: 9780230232013
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 27 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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