> Yes, I could see the URL looked weird, but it still works for me...anyhoo,
> here is the content there, followed by two excellent pprs on Goffman and Total
> Intitutions
> http://www.cspi.org/cgi-bin/netforum/soc215/a.cgi/3--5
> Socialization
> Topic: Goffman Asylum
> (lynn.xu@utoronto.ca )
> Course/Section: Soc215 lecture on Sept. 17th, 2001
> Topic Description: Development of the concept of SELF Transcendental self
> Represented by the Enlightenment Descartes: ³I think, therefore I am.² Social
> self Represented by Symbolic Interactionism Erving Goffman: 1. Social and
> empirical 2. Circumstantially realized - Situated contingencies - Rituals of
> interaction Total Institution Definition (the introduction of Asylum) ³A total
> institution is a place of residence and work where a like number of
> like-situated individuals, cut off from wider society for an appreciable
> period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of
> life.² Two-part process 1. Erode the established identity of self: degradation
> and mortification 2. Reconstitute a new ³desired² sense of self : brainwash
> Characteristics of Total Institution 1. All aspects of life are conducted in
> the same place and under the same single authority 2. All daily activities are
> performed in the immediate company of a large ³batch² of similar others 3. All
> daily activities are tightly schedule 4. Various activities are brought
> together into a ³rational plan² purportedly designed to fulfill official aims
> of the institution (Asylum, p.6) Secondary adjustment Definition Practices
> that do not directly challenge staff but allow inmates to obtain forbidden
> satisfactions or to obtain permitted ones by forbidden means. (Asylum, p.54)
> Function 1. Maintaining self-identity 2. Fraternalization process: developing
> mutual support and common counter-mores in opposition to the primary
> adjustment.
>
> http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/hbecker/goffman.html
>
> http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~eliotf/Celebrating_Erving_Goffman.html
mARY
-- The child has no powers of reflection - no second-order thoughts which deal critically with his (sic) own thinkingŠIn contrast, the adolescent is able to analyze his own thinking and construct theoriesŠOf course, the girls are more interested in marriage, but the husband they dream of is most often ³theoretical², and their thoughts about married life as well take on the characteristics of ³theories². Jean PiagetMary Bryson, Associate Professor, ECPS, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
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