SOCIOL 1 Chapter Goffman's Asylums - SOCIOL 1 required reading: Goffman' Asylums

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1
• Professor: Ann Swidler

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Institutions in the everyday sense of that term (3) . Fixed members or changing set of participants. Lax or fixed pursuits: total institution- separate their members completely from the outside world using a variety of physical and psychological methods and exhibit any combination of a number of standard characteristics. No characteristic is shared by all ti"s but each has many of the five characteristics (5) Ti = hybrid between residential community and formal organization (12) Their encompassing or total character is symbolized by the barrier to social intercourse with the outside adn to departure that is often built right into the physical plant these establishments i am calling total institutions (4) . In total institutions there is a basic split between a large managed group, conveniently called inmates, and a small supervisory staff (7). Motivations for work and the attitudes towards work (10-11) There will have to be different motives for work and different attitudes toward it (11) .