Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (Hardcover)

Total institutions are places to which people are confined around the clock, in isolation from all other influences and social relationships. Hospitals, prisons and boarding schools create unique social worlds of rituals, routines and sanctions, which pervade every aspect of daily life and have a lasting effect upon their residents. This book revisits and updates Erving Goffman's pessimistic critique of the total institution, which had focused on the 'mortifying' effects of enforced identity erasure in austere and controlling environments. Susie Scott argues that a new organizational form has emerged in the culture of late modernity, which involves subtler mechanisms of social control and whose members cite more positive meanings and motivations.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	S. Scott
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-23201-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-230-23201-9
Barcode:	9780230232013

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