E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
Scott Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34860-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
Reihe: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 978-0-230-34860-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.




