Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

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-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Susie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2011, 2011
Series:Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:VIII, 280 p online resource
ISBN:9780230348608