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.
| ISBN: | 9780230232013 |
| Publication date: | 27th October 2011 |
| Author: | Susie Scott |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | Identity Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Genres: |
Health psychology Philosophy of mind Medical sociology Sociology Anthropology Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality |