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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Total institution"”.
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Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
Battering has been described as an example of the total institution (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. Battering has well-documented physical, psychological, social, and economic …
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Innocent Victims and Savage Killers: Representation and Portrayal of the Bushman Battalions
… developed these ideas in the context of the total institution that was designed to control every aspect of the lives of the soldiers and their dependents.</p>
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In spite of institution : community engagement and the lived experiences of Kearl oil sands workers in Northern Alberta
… of perspective; within the walls of a highly institutionalized work camp in northern Alberta, it is one that employees are constantly negotiating, as the boundaries that typically separate areas of work, sleep, play and life blur. By adopting an interactionist perspective, existing theories of …
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Freedom and conflict: a replication of G.A. Hillery's comparative study
… Under the heading of formal organization, a total institution was chosen whereas under the heading of communal organization, an intentional community was chosen. The unit of analysis was each whole system. Two different methodological tools were used: participant-observation and a structured …
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How Power and Control Drive Behaviour & Identity Modification Among Cruise Ship Workers: A Qualitative Study
… by drawing on Irving Goffman’s [1922-1982] ‘total institution’ control, where behavioural performances and emotion management modify identities as acts of compliance to the highly regulated environment. The study develops connections between concepts of emotional labour, organisational …
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Cleanliness and Godliness: A sociological study of the Good Shepherd Convent refuges for the social reformation and Christian conversion of prostitutes and convicted women in nineteenth century Britain
… the structure and ideology of transformative institutions directed to christian conversion. The thesis initially identifies different organisational forms and the ideology revealed by the long-span history of convent refuges. It goes on to consider the problems that tradition posed in the …
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Understanding the culture of care: An ethnographic study of how healthcare workers in a Mental Health Centre negotiate care in Windhoek, Namibia
… at Windhoek Central Hospital functions like a 'total institution', however, it is under-equipped, understaffed and lacking the capacity to accommodate all patients. Furthermore, it was established that healthcare workers at the centre have cultivated for themselves a culture of care that is …
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Factors influencing delabeling inconsistency
… interaction that the respondent attributes to a total institution (e.g., a prison or a mental hospital) in having completely treated the ex-deviant (e.g., an ex-convict or an ex-mental patient); #6) the degree of responsibility that the respondent attributes to the ex-deviant for his behaviors; …
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The Experience of Imprisonment Amongst Ex-Military Personnel in England and Wales
… supporting Goffman’s (1961) conception of the total institution, while also highlighting differences between the fragmented, individualistic social world of the prison and the collective and cohesive social world of the military. The study found that veterans employed their military mind-set …
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From soldier, to civilian, to student: student veterans' transitions from overseas deployments to the university classroom
The implementation of the Post 9/11 GI Bill in August 2009 made approximately two million veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan eligible for higher education subsidies, and colleges universities are experiencing an increased enrollment of veterans. Ultimately, in order to understand how …
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Beggars Can't Be Choosers or the Refugee as a Moral Agent?
… in the third party setting, 4) Goffman's total institution theory on stigma and identity, and 5) moral perceptions created by a discourse based on agency, reciprocity, solidarity, and hope.</p><p> Discursive analysis affirms that the dominant discourse has historically been absent the …
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The Numbers Gang in South African Correctional Facilities: Reflections on Structures, Functions and Culture
… stand in a complex relationship to carceral institutions. At one level gangs on the inside of prison walls constitute a reactive and adaptive response to prisons as ‘total institutions'. But in turn, prison gangs have a formative influence on life inside the ‘total institution' – both for …
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Perceptions of inservice strategies by vocational teachers and administrators in selected public schools of the District of Columbia
… important in the list, fiscal policies of the total institution, was rated as important by 51% of the teachers and 65% of the administrators.
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In the Shadow of the ‘Big House' Redefining halfway houses within the debate over incarceration
… Meaningful restoration demands a different institutional setting. In the 19th century, pre-release residential programmes, also known as ‘halfway houses', were created to deal with the challenges of prisoner integration. These rehabilitation programmes for ex-prisoners attempted to bridge …
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Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital
… and rehabilitation agendas that govern the institution. By means of a conceptually-driven critical analysis of the empirical practice, the study explores the ethical tensions and possibilities of locating all participants as political actors with agency to develop the stories, characters, …
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What is Going on in Adult Day Services (ADS) in Taiwan?: An Examination of Social and Physical Environments in Two Centers
… of environmental press, place rules, and the total institution to shape my research framework. Using ethnographic data from two ADS centers with 270 hours of observations and 23 interviews with staff and clients, I analyzed staff-client interactions and clients' reactions toward staff …
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Liminal Boundaries and Vulnerabilities to Radicalisation in the Context of Securitisation of Migration
… backdrop. The camp has been conceived as a total institution that presents forms of physical, mental and other expressions of encampment inimical to freedoms. As such, three interlocking formulations of encampment, which is a measure of securitisation, arise. The first manifestation of …
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An Australian co-educational boarding school as a crucible for life: a humanistic sociological study of students' attitudes from their own memoirs.
… freedom thereby supporting Goffman's view of a "total institution". The majority of students' memoirs were ambivalent towards religion at the research school. Nevertheless, 11 stressed its significant implication in their day-to-day lives. The memoirs suggested that an education at the research …