Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

S. Scott

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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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.

ISBN-13
9781349312412
ISBN-10
134931241X
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-01-01
Pages
280
Dimensions
235x155x