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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Paperback)
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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Paperback)
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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 of life.
Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what
is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members
have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in
general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on
the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief
concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of
the self. Each of the essays in this book were intended to focus on
the same issue--the inmate's situation in an institutional context.
Each chapter approaches the central issue from a different vantage
point, each introduction drawing upon a different source in
sociology and having little direct relation to the other chapters.
This method of presenting material may be irksome, but it allows
the reader to pursue the main theme of each paper analytically and
comparatively past the point that would be allowable in chapters of
an integrated book. If sociological concepts are to be treated with
affection, each must be traced back to where it best applies,
followed from there wherever it seems to lead, and pressed to
disclose the rest of its family.
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