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Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

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Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 134931241X
ISBN13: 9781349312412
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
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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