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ASYLUMS by Erving Goffman
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Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes ...Show more
Frame AnalysisAn Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman
$78.00 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Erving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Frame Analysis, the brilliant theorist writes about the ways in which people determine their answers to the questions “What is going on here?” and “Under what circumstances do we think things are real?”
STIGMA NOTES ON MANAGEMENT NOTES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF A SPOILED IDENTITY by GOFFMAN ERVING
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Category: Social Sciences
The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic- they are all socially "abnormal", and therefore in danger of being considered less then human. Whether ordinary people react by rejection, by ove ...Show more
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE by GOFFMAN ERVING
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Category: Health and Wellbeing
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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Category: Health and Wellbeing
In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job ...Show more
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