scholarly journals Szpital psychiatryczny jako przykład instytucji totalnej

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Wioletta Jedlecka
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Full Control ◽  
Special Place

The aim of this article is attempting to answer the question whether the psychiatric hospital can still be considered as a total institution. The concept of a psychiatric hospital as a total institution was formulated by Erving Goffman. In this type of facility, the personnel has full control over the patient, their time, private life, and mobility. However, a psychiatric hospital is also a special place. Is this type of hospital still a total institution? Is it not better now to call it a quasi-total institution?

Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110115
Author(s):  
Anna Clot-Garrell
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Late Modern

Total institutions have undergone profound changes since Erving Goffman published his seminal work Asylums in 1961. This article explores the persistence and transformation of total institutions under late-modern conditions. Based upon empirical research conducted in a female Benedictine monastery, I analyse changes in the physically bounded structure of a total institution. Specifically, I address the trend towards greater permeability and flexibility of enclosed total spaces. Inspired by Georg Simmel’s spatial insights, I examine how boundaries are historically reshaped through changing relations of distance and proximity to wider society, and how these shifts alter the material expression and configuration of power that originally characterised the monastery’s totality. This article claims the ongoing relevance of Goffman’s conceptualisation to accommodate such modifications and illustrates how, in certain cases, adaptations of total institutions to contemporary conditions can be understood as involving the reconfiguration, rather than the dismantling, of totality.

scholarly journals “Traces of my tears will remain on this paper ...”: Letters from Elizabeth Stephens to M. M. Speransky

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 412-427
Author(s):  
K. A. Sozinova
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Private Life ◽  
National Library ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
British English ◽  
Special Place ◽  
History Of

The author of the article assumes that the interstate relations between Russia and Great Britain in the late 18th — early 19th centuries largely determined the area of private contacts between Russians and the British. English-Russian marriages have a special place in the history of English-Russian relations. Attention is paid to one of such unions — the marriage of the outstanding statesman M. M. Speransky with an Englishwoman Elizabeth Stephens. It is claimed that a significant role in Speransky’s fate was played by A. A. Samborsky, also married to an Englishwoman, in whose house Speransky’s fateful meeting with his future wife took place. It is reported that the Speransky Fund of the Russian national library preserved letters of Elizabeth Stephens to Speransky, previously not widely attracted by researchers, but not all of these letters actually belong to Elizabeth, some of them belong to her sister — Marianne. This study provides the first translation of these letters for the analysis of Speransky’s private life. The author concludes that the preserved correspondence meets the standards and methods of expression of feelings in the era of “sentimentalism.” The problem of how much Speransky was immersed in the cultural context of British reality due to this marriage is also considered. Despite the fact that the marriage was quite short, Speransky’s relations with the Stephens family were quite strong.

scholarly journals Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault - Discourses Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Andrzej Borowski
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Extreme Conditions ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Total Structure

Functioning of the man in extreme conditions posed by some social institutions was a subject of many scientific studies so far. Among them some works are taking the special place E. Goffman and M. Foucault. Every school of the power should be so checking the total structure of action influencing action/ interaction/s other in special cases and of oppositions and dodge with which this action is connected. Using to such a school analytical categories Goffman’s neosymbolic of interactionism in the microsociological aspect and coming from Foucault’s discourse analysis in the macrosocjological aspect a novelty especially in examinations can constitute of total institutions associated with the authority of the state.

scholarly journals The place and role of the Police in upbringing in sobriety and counteracting alcoholism

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Barbara Jaworska-Dębska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Illegal Trade ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Special Place ◽  
General Competence

The Police as a uniformed service, functioning throughout the country, is established in order to take care of security and public order. The Police occupy a special place among other public administration bodies operating in this field. This place of the Police undoubtedly follows the fact that it functions on the basis of a general competence regulation in the scope of ensuring security and public order. Alcohol and its abuse, illegal consumption or illegal trade are one of the most common factors generating situations leading to breach of safety and order in many areas of public and private life. Furthermore, is the fact that as a uniformed service with power, it has the ability to use police coercion.

scholarly journals Erving Goffman and the total institution

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Total Institution ◽  
Erving Goffman

Automated electron tomography: from data collection to image processing

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Weiping Liu ◽  
Jennifer Fung ◽  
W.J. de Ruijter ◽  
Hans Chen ◽  
John W. Sedat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Imaging Technique ◽  
Electron Tomography ◽  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Automated Data Collection ◽  
Full Control ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Amorphous Structures

Electron tomography is a technique where many projections of an object are collected from the transmission electron microscope (TEM), and are then used to reconstruct the object in its entirety, allowing internal structure to be viewed. As vital as is the 3-D structural information and with no other 3-D imaging technique to compete in its resolution range, electron tomography of amorphous structures has been exercised only sporadically over the last ten years. Its general lack of popularity can be attributed to the tediousness of the entire process starting from the data collection, image processing for reconstruction, and extending to the 3-D image analysis. We have been investing effort to automate all aspects of electron tomography. Our systems of data collection and tomographic image processing will be briefly described.To date, we have developed a second generation automated data collection system based on an SGI workstation (Fig. 1) (The previous version used a micro VAX). The computer takes full control of the microscope operations with its graphical menu driven environment. This is made possible by the direct digital recording of images using the CCD camera.

Beyond Conflict: The Role of Work-Private Life Enrichment for Expatriates

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Kempen ◽  
Karsten Mueller ◽  
Tammo Straatmann ◽  
Kate Hattrup ◽  
Sven-Oliver Spiess
Keyword(s):  
Private Life
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