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Asylums - Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
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 li ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self-Help
Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman ...Show more
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Self-Help
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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