Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780241548004
UPC: 9780241548004
ISBN: 9780241548004
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Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Author: Erving Goffman
Book Title: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental
Item Height: 2 cm
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.26 kg
Item Width: 12.9 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Penguin Classics
