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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-...

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Main Author: Scott, Susie (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Identity studies in the social sciences.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Anthropology.
Health Psychology.
Medical Sociology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Self and Identity.
Sociology, general.
Clinical health psychology.
Identity (Psychology)
Personality.
Self.
Social medicine.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 280 pages)
ISBN:9780230348608
DOI:10.1057/9780230348608