Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities
| By: | S. Scott |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230232013 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230348608 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2011 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.