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

Author: Erving Goffman

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September 10, 2023

Context:

Referenced indirectly when the hosts mention 'a great Canadian sociologist in the 20th century called Irving Goffman' and his concept of 'total institutions,' which they apply to Victorian public schools. Goffman's concept is used to explain the all-encompassing, regimented nature of boarding school life.