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ASYLUMS by Erving Goffman
Category: Self-Help | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes ...Show more
Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
Category: Politics
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 li ...Show more
STIGMA NOTES ON MANAGEMENT NOTES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF A SPOILED IDENTITY by GOFFMAN ERVING
Category: Cultural Studies
The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic- they are all socially "abnormal", and therefore in danger of being considered less then human. Whether ordinary people react by rejection, by ove ...Show more
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
Category: Science
In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection o ...Show more
Stigma - Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Category: Personal Development
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more
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