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.

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University of Sussex, UK

Susie Scott

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SUSIE SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Shyness and Society and Making Sense of Everyday Life, alongside articles about shyness, Erving Goffman, swimming and total institutions.

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Book Title: Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities
Authors: Susie Scott
Series Title: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348608
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23201-3Published: 27 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31241-2Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34860-8Published: 27 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2947-7786
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7794
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 280
Topics: Health Psychology, Medical Sociology, Sociology, general, Self and Identity, Anthropology, Personality and Social Psychology

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