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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates - Couverture souple

Goffman, Erving

 
9780241548004: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0241548004 ISBN 13 : 9780241548004
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2022

Synopsis

One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum

'Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing adults'

This groundbreaking work of social science explores life in 'total institutions': the closed, regimented systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental hospitals, which cut individuals off from society. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', the loss of selfhood experienced by those held there, and the ways in which they try to regain their identities.

'One of the most distinguished and provocative of social scientists' The Times

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241548004
ISBN 13 
9780241548004
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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