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Journal articles on the topic "Goffman’s “total institutions”"
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Hatteberg, Sarah J. "Under Surveillance: Collegiate Athletics as a Total Institution." Sociology of Sport Journal 35, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0096.
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Scholars have identified similarities between collegiate athletics and total institutions for profit-athletes, but few examined the relationship for athletes participating in other sports. Drawing on qualitative data collected from a sample of NCAA Division I athletes participating in four different sports, this study examined how collegiate athletics might approximate a total institution according to Goffman’s 1961 conceptualization. Consistent with Goffman’s conceptualization, athletes experienced 1) an absence of barriers between their spheres of life, 2) insularity of the athletic community, 3) strict schedules, and 4) institutional objectives used to justify totalitarian practices. These aspects of the institution helped to facilitate pervasive surveillance and extensive institutional power and control, aspects of the institution that athletes of all sports types perceived as stressful. These findings suggest that structural aspects of collegiate athletics may operate as ambient strains that could have consequences for athlete well-being, a possibility that should be explored in future research.
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Shreeya, Anuragini. "The Self as an Active Agent: Understanding Goffman’s Theory of Resistance in Total Institutions through Life-histories." Sociological Bulletin 67, no. 2 (June 7, 2018): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022918775500.
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By drawing examples from a particular genre of literary work—life-histories—this paper aims to describe, how ‘resistance’, a pervasive feature of total institutions, occurs in a variety of ways in different total institutions. Working within the broad theoretical framework of Goffman’s Asylums (1961), this article will assess the extent and nature of resistance that is possible in each total institution, and the amount of agency each inmate is invested with. It will also explore as to ‘how’ the basic characteristics of total institutions create space for resistance and ‘why’ inmates resist. This will lead to an understating of the ways in which the ‘resisting self’ develops—whether it is a result of the inmates' interaction with other inmates/staff, or is a product of their personal experiences before entering the total institution. The discussion will also seek to establish that depending upon how, why, and against what inmates resist, several types of total institutions differ.
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Borowski, Andrzej. "Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault - Discourses Analysis." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 1 (September 2013): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.1.19.
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Functioning of the man in extreme conditions posed by some social institutions was a subject of many scientific studies so far. Among them some works are taking the special place E. Goffman and M. Foucault. Every school of the power should be so checking the total structure of action influencing action/ interaction/s other in special cases and of oppositions and dodge with which this action is connected. Using to such a school analytical categories Goffman’s neosymbolic of interactionism in the microsociological aspect and coming from Foucault’s discourse analysis in the macrosocjological aspect a novelty especially in examinations can constitute of total institutions associated with the authority of the state.
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Andow, Caroline. "Outsider Inspections of Closed Institutions: An Insider Ethnographic View of Institutional Display." Sociological Research Online 25, no. 4 (March 2, 2020): 682–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780420906832.
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This article questions the value of internal inspections of closed institutions by external agencies, drawing on my unanticipated experience of being deeply immersed as a researcher inside a Secure Children’s Home at the time of an inspection. I describe how an ethnographic approach enabled me to see a dramatic change in the staff–young people relations – from adversarial to cooperative – in the presence of outside inspectors. I make sense of this change through an original application, and novel extension, of Goffman’s theorising. I conceptualise the staff and young people as insiders of a ‘total institution’ working together to perform a misleadingly harmonious ‘institutional display’, motivated by a shared sense of institutional identity. I argue that although the potential for insider misrepresentation can be acknowledged, the extent of it cannot be known by outsiders. This finding is of significance for social policy as closed institutions accommodate vulnerable populations and cases of institutional abuses attest the need for external monitoring. This article calls for recognition of the inherent limitation of external face-to-face inspection processes, and research into new methods of assessment.
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Friis Thing, Ida, and Viola Marie Skovgaard. "Tilpasningsstrategier på Sexologisk Klinik – En undersøgelse af transkønnede klienters forhandling af identitet." Dansk Sociologi 28, no. 3 (October 15, 2017): 41–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/dansoc.v28i3.5642.
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Denne artikel præsenterer resultaterne fra 9 kvalitative interviews med transpersoner, der enten er eller har været i behandling på den offentlige institution Sexologisk Klinik på Rigshospitalet i København. I Danmark har de to offentlige institutioner Sexologisk Klinik og Sexologisk Center Aalborg monopol på behandling af transpersoner. Klienter der ønsker hormonel eller kropsmodificerende behandling må således gennemgå et udredningsforløb på en af disse institutioner. Artiklen viser, hvordan identiteten transseksuel kan siges at udgøre en institutionel identitet på Sexologisk Klinik, som klienterne aktivt udfordrer, følger eller indretter sig strategisk efter. I artiklen analyserer vi, ved hjælp af Goffmans teoriapparat fra hans analyse om den totale institution, hvordan klienterne gør brug af tilpasningsstrategier i et forsøg på at håndtere de institutionelle identiteter, de tilbydes. Vi viser, at klienterne i udpræget grad anvender, hvad Goffman betegner som en koloniserende tilpasningsstrategi på klinikken og således bestræber sig på at få mest ud af institutionens muligheder ved at omstrukturere deres livshistorier, så de passer til institutionens kriterier for godkendelse til behandling. I analysen benyttes en kombination af symbolsk interaktionisme og socialkonstruktivisme til at undersøge den relationelle karakter af reproduktionen af den institutionelle identitet transseksuel.
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Ida Friis Thing and Viola Marie Skovgaard: Strategies ofadaptation at a sexology clinic: a study of transgenderclients’ negotiation of identity
This article presents the results from nine qualitative interviews with transgender
clients concerning their experiences with a public healthcare sexology
clinic. At this institution transgender clients apply for approval to receive hormonal
treatment and body modifying surgery. The article analyses the social
process of clientisation in encounters between clients and mental health professionals,
which involve the construction of the institutional identity transsexual,
that is, some conditions for how the clients might perceive and present
themselves. We employ Goffman’s theoretical concepts from his analysis of
the total institution to describe how clients adapt to this process of clientisation
by making use of a variety of strategies. Some clients are continuingly
resisting the institution and the mental health professionals, while other clients
adapt fully to the institutional ideology of therapy. However most clients
take advantage of possibilities within the institution by creating narratives
that correspond with the institutional criteria for the diagnosis transsexual. We
employ a combination of the symbolic interactionist and the social constructivist
approaches to emphasize the relational character of the reproduction of
the institutional identity transsexual.
Keywords: Clientisation, Adaptation Strategies, Goffman, Institutional Identities, transgender
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Lau, Pui Yan Flora, and Iulia Gheorghiu. "Vanishing Selves under Hong Kong’s Unified Screening Mechanism." Cultural Diversity in China 3, no. 1 (June 26, 2018): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cdc-2018-0003.
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Abstract Drawing on Erving Goffman’s analysis of total institutions and his concept of mortification of the self, the present article deals with the process of identity construction and identity loss among refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. We argue that the slow pace of processing of political asylum applications as well as the harsh restrictions imposed on rights to work and the minimal welfare provisions for refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong operate as means of isolating them from the broader society. Another consequence of these restrictive conditions becomes manifest in the loss of identity experienced by those who have been stuck in Hong Kong for many years waiting for their applications to be processed. Being unable to preserve the sense of identity they had in their countries of origin, they find themselves deprived of the social and institutional resorts necessary to forge a new one.
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Geppert, Mike, and Daniel Pastuh. "Total institutions revisited: What can Goffman’s approach tell us about ‘oppressive’ control and ‘problematic’ conditions of work and employment in contemporary business organizations?" Competition & Change 21, no. 4 (July 20, 2017): 253–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024529417722350.
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Serpa, Sandro. "On the concept of Total Institution." International Journal of Social Science Studies 6, no. 9 (August 19, 2018): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v6i9.3467.
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This conceptual paper puts forward Goffman’s concept of total institution, a classic of sociology. It is concluded that this concept holds heuristic capacity, notwithstanding the great constraint of the action of its members, which, however, does not determine each actor’s margins of freedom, at least in the study carried out. Even in extreme situations, organisational actors discover or create spaces of (some) autonomy, in which they exercise their (even if highly regulated) freedom beyond the structure of the organisation, a fact that is acknowledged by Goffman himself.
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Borowski, Andrzej. "Ghettoisation as a New Dimension of Totalisation." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 2 (September 2013): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.2.56.
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Ghettoisation after the fall of the totalitarian system is having a "chance" to become one way still for the marginalisation and blocking the reconstruction process of healthy relations in the local communities. Of sources of theoretical considerations above ghettoisation it is possible to seek in deliberations E. Fromm concerning authoritarian character, inquiry M. Foucault in relation to idea initiated in seventeenth-century France of "great closing" and of E. Goffman’s sociological examinations of the total institutions concerning the specificity of functioning. Ghettoisation as the new dimension totalisation is becoming part of reality of Polish cities gradually, irrespective of it, whether closed communities /gated communities/ are coming into existence discretionary of their future participants, or in relation to any form of the compulsion putting researchers before the need to develop effective frames teoretical and methodological allowing for their optimum analysing.
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Kõvamees, Erik. "Prisons as total institution semiospheres." Sign Systems Studies 48, no. 2-4 (December 31, 2020): 297–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2020.48.2-4.06.
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The main objective of this article is to combine Juri Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere – including its concepts of boundary, core, and periphery – with Erving Goffman’s theory of the total institution. The purpose is to develop a framework conducive to examining the prison as an object of study, equally emphasizing both its internal as well as external relations. This work positions itself within the contexts of the relative decline of the field of prison ethnography, few or no studies done applying semiotic metalanguage to the prison or the total institution, and none applying the theory of the semiosphere to either. This work is oriented according to an analytical or neutral mode; its point is not to offer a normative programme, but to offer a new description of the research object and a new language of description in which to speak of this object. The secondary objectives of this article include demonstrating that Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere and Goffman’s theory of the total institution are compatible, that Lotman’s theory actually refines Goffman’s original, that Lotman’s theory taken independently and Goffman’s theory as refined by Lotman’s are both compatible with the direction of contemporary prison ethnography, and that the framework presented in this work has the potential to reinvigorate the field of prison ethnography.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Goffman’s “total institutions”"
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Jezierski, Wojtek. "Total St Gall : Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43166.
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How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in the least - what can such a metaphor tell us about power relations structuring the life of medieval monks? The purpose of this compilation thesis (sammanläggningsavhandling) is to render explicit and analyze relations of power and modes of control comprising the social tissue of early medieval Benedictine monasteries. By bringing up the examples of tenth- and eleventh-century monasteries of St Gall, Fulda, and Bury St Edmunds, this thesis seeks to understand what power was in medieval monasteries, how and between whom it was exercised, what and how it affected in terms of collective and individual identity. The thesis consists of three introductory chapters, four previously published empirical articles, and a concluding remarks section. Article 1 investigates the problem of surveillance and patterns of social control dispersed in the monastery of St Gall. Article 2 studies the early and high medieval institutional expectations and means of enforcement of the monk’s role. Article 3 scrutinizes an example of a persecution process and a set of defense measures in the hands of the St Gall community warding off an unwanted visitor. Article 4 examines a number of internal monastic conflicts from several monasteries and strategies, both political and cognitive, guiding them. In investigating these problems, the thesis proceeds in a manner of deliberate anachronism. It asks questions about how human subjectivity was manufactured in early medieval St Gall, what were a medieval monastery’s ‘conditions of possibility’ to operate as a social regime, or oral and literary means of conflict management etc. The crucial modern social theories on which the thesis hinges are: Erving Goffman’s notion of ‘total institution’, and Michel Foucault’s analysis of power, as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s logic of action.
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Agboola, Caroline Aderonke. "A qualitative analysis of womens' experiences before, during and after imprisonment in South Africa." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18327.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the experiences of South African women prior to, during and after incarceration. The theoretical bases for this study include the general strain theory (GST), feminist pathways approach and Goffman’s “total institutions”. The study made use of a qualitative research design. In-depth interviews were conducted with a total of twenty female ex-prisoners, who were selected using snowball sampling, to obtain information about their experiences during the periods indicated. The findings of the study indicated that, in respect of the three periods mentioned, the participants cited their experiences during incarceration as the most prominent as they tended to dwell more on this phase of their lives than any other phase. This is, in fact, not surprising as their narratives portrayed their lives behind bars as having been traumatic with far-reaching consequences for their lives after their incarceration. The study found that some of the participants had histories of emotional and physical abuse before their offending behaviours. It emerged that consensual same-sex sexual relationships between females in South African prisons exist and that these relationships are, sometimes, accepted by the family members of the female inmates. The participants reported that coercive sexual relationships also take place in female prisons in South Africa. It was also reported that the conditions under which females are incarcerated are, for the most part, deplorable. It emerged that the female prisoners use a unique monetary system which is based mainly on the trade by barter system. In addition, the findings revealed that female inmates often experience daunting challenges upon their release from prison, including high rates of unemployment, stigma and discrimination, family breakdown and the psychological effects of imprisonment, all of which often compound the resolve of some of the participants to live crime-free lives.Sociology
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Books on the topic "Goffman’s “total institutions”"
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Severino, Sergio. Dalle istituzioni totali ai "nonluoghi": Una digressione teorico-metodologica da Erving Goffman alla "surmodernità" di Marc Augé. Torino: G. Giappichelli, 2008.
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Dalle istituzioni totali ai "nonluoghi": Una digressione teorico-metodologica da Erving Goffman alla "surmodernità" di Marc Augé. Torino: G. Giappichelli, 2008.
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Jamin, Daniela, and Heino Stöver, eds. Zwischen Haft und Freiheit. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748924609.
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There are huge differences between custody and freedom. In the former, life is dominated by the rhythm of the "total institution of prison" (Goffman), whereas, in the latter, it remains relatively self-determined—even in the case of drug dependency. How can the transition from one to the other be organised in such a way that people who are dependent on drugs suffer the least damage? This volume provides both answers to that question and examples of good practice in this respect: the requirements and strategies of drug users when they are released from prison current practice in treating prisoners who use drugs examples of good practice when it comes to release management (networks, counselling, etc.) needs, alternatives and management from a multi-professional perspective.
Book chapters on the topic "Goffman’s “total institutions”"
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"Erving Goffman: sail training, interactionism and the ‘total institution’." In Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, 78–88. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203114773-14.
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