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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
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Category: Psychology
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 li ...Show more
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
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Category: Psychology
In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection o ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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Category: Psychology
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more
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