Asylums

Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Erving Goffman

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English

Penguin
20 September 2022

Psychology; Mental health services; Popular psychology

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

New to Penguin Modern Classics, one of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum, the 'total institution'

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 lives are managed 'on the inside', and how the setting more often than not works against the inmate's best interests.

A radical exploration of the institutions that rule over the lives of men, women and children, Asylums is one of Erving Goffman's most insightful and long-lived works.

By: Erving Goffman
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9780241548004
ISBN 10: 0241548004
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 20 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.