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Total institutions and reinvented identities

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Total institutions and reinvented identities/ Susie Scott.
作者:	Scott, Susie,
出版者:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (p.)
標題:	Public institutions. -
電子資源:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230348608
ISBN:	9780230348608 (electronic bk.)

Total institutions and reinvented identities
Scott, Susie,1977-

Total institutions and reinvented identities[electronic resource] /Susie Scott. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements� -- Introduction -- Totally Committed -- Re-Inventive Institutions -- Religious and Spiritual Communities -- Military Camps -- Secret Societies and Fraternities -- Therapeutic Clinics -- Education and Enrichment -- Virtual Institutions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index --.

Total institutions are places to which people are confined around the clock, in isolation from all other influences and social relationships. Hospitals, prisons and boarding schools create unique social worlds of rituals, routines and sanctions, which pervade every aspect of daily life and have a lasting effect upon their residents. This book revisits and updates Erving Goffman's pessimistic critique of the total institution, which had focused on the 'mortifying' effects of enforced identity erasure in austere and controlling environments. Susie Scott argues that a new organizational form has emerged in the culture of late modernity, which involves subtler mechanisms of social control and whose members cite more positive meanings and motivations. The Reinventive Institution (RI) is one to which members voluntarily commit themselves, willingly discarding their former identities to pursue transformative regimes of self-improvement and identity reinvention: they range from therapeutic clinics to spiritual retreats, academic hothouses, secret societies and virtual communities. Why do people choose to enter and remain in such institutions, and how does the experience change them? Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, this work focuses on the encounters that take place between members as they perform their identities in the drama of institutional life. The concept of 'performative regulation' is introduced to theorize the RI's power structure, as members' commitment is shown to be mediated by peer surveillance and mutual sanctioning. This raises important questions about the relative influence of agency, conflict and social control in the authorship of the self.

ISBN: 9780230348608 (electronic bk.)

Source: 360790Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Public institutions.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV97.A3 / S48 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 361.7

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