Asylums: Essays On the Social Situation of Mental Patients And Other Inmates (Pelican S.) - Softcover

Goffman, Erving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140210075 ISBN 13: 9780140210071

Publisher: Penguin, 1968

Synopsis

Asylums

About this title

About the Author:

Erving Goffman was born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual, and Stigma

From the Inside Flap:

"Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0140210075
• ISBN 13: 9780140210071
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336