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Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 14: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

Scott, S.

 
9781349312412: Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

SUSIE SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Shyness and Society and Making Sense of Everyday Life, alongside articles about shyness, Erving Goffman, swimming and total institutions.

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