Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements  Introduction Totally Committed Re-Inventive Institutions Religious and Spiritual Communities Military Camps Secret Societies and Fraternities Therapeutic Clinics Education and Enrichment Virtual Institutions Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction Totally Committed Re-Inventive Institutions Religious and Spiritual Communities Military Camps Secret Societies and Fraternities Therapeutic Clinics Education and Enrichment Virtual Institutions Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: S Scott, S. Scott, Susie Scott, SCOTT SUSIE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9780230232013
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23201-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences; Identity Studies in the Social; Identity Studies in the Social Sciences; Identity Studies in the Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology