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Asylums
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Asylums
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 book by sociologist Erving Goffman. Asylums was a key text in the development of deinstitutionalization. The book is one of the first sociological examinations of the social situation of mental patients, the hospital. Based on his participant observation field work, the book details Goffman's theory of the "total institution" and the process by which it takes efforts to maintain predictable and regular behavior on the part of both "guard" and "captor," suggesting that many of the features of such institutions serve the ritual function of ensuring that both classes of people know their function and social role, in other words of "institutionalizing" them.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of asylums in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of asylums in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
In these insane times I've come to realize that insanity is being celebrated more and more. I'm not talking about the ones in the insane asylums, but about those who are continuing to use insane ideas to gain followers.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
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