Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates

By S. M. Suibhne. 2009

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Health-related stigma. (2009, unknown): “Definitions of situations can reflect imbalances of power, as is the case in ‘total institutions’ (Goffman 1961).”
Warring Identities (2014, background): “We contend that the struggle to resolve contrasting identities—what we call warring identities—during the readjustment transition plays a critical role in postwar mental distress of combat veterans.”
Stigma in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: A review of the literature and recommendations for the way forward (2008, background): “Early work Based on his work in psychiatric hospitals and among criminals and homosexuals, Erving Goffman [9,10] provided a seminal theorization of health-related stigma in the 1960s.”
A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Newcomers' Change Processes: The Management of Cognitive Uncertainty in Two Investment Banks (2007, background): “Similar isolating practices are adopted by “total organizations” (Etzioni, 1975), “total institutions” (Goffman, 1961), and “greedy organizations” (Coser, 1967) and are known to render members unusually susceptible to organizational influence.”
Identity undoing and power relations in leadership development (2013, background): “Individuals are agentic in their performance of different identities; however, the range of identities available (and how to enact them) is limited (Goffman, 1961, 1972).”
Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids (2012, background): “The objective has been to create “free places” (Goffman, 1961) in which women feel they belong—places that contribute to the development of women’s sense of self and break women’s dominant relations of dependence.”
Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health (2013, background): “As a grass-roots movement, it was accompanied by an intellectual critique against biomedical models of illness and coercive measures of control, in what became known as the ‘anti-psychiatry’ movement (e.g. Laing 1960, Goffman 1961, Cooper 1967, Szasz 1974).”
Not Just an Individual Journey: Social Aspects of Recovery (2011, background): “Goffman (1961) and other social scientists have described how being committed to a total institution changes the individual’s identity.”
Assessing Static and Dynamic Influences on Inmate Violence Levels (2009, background): “Goffman (1961) characterized prisons as total institutions, which he defined as a large number of similarly situated individuals who are cut off from the wider society for an extended period of time and together lead an enclosed, formally regimented way of life.”
CALCULATING ECONOMIC LIFE (2008, result): “…examined how the social linkages among a relatively small group of people enable new accounting numbers to be produced (Chua 1995); and the process of ‘becoming’ a professional accountant (Power 1991) was viewed as analogous to that of the ‘moral career’ of the mental patient (Goffman 1961).”
Learning to Escape: Prison Education, Rehabilitation and the Potential for Transformation (2014, background): “While institutions certainly have an impact on prisoners (Sykes, 1958; Goffman, 1961), individuals also bring in attributes (Irwin & Cressy, 1962) to the prison.”