Asylums

Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Asylums
Erving Goffman
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5 May 2022 UK
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9780241548004
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New to Penguin Modern Classics, one of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum, the ' total institution' Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the ' total institutions' - the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed ' on the inside' , and how the setting more often than not works against the inmate' s best interests. A radical exploration of the institutions that rule over the lives of men, women and children, Asylums is one of Erving Goffman' s most insightful and long-lived works.
Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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ISBN-13: 9780241548004
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 352

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