Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Residential living
- can be compared to institutional living
- can be depersonalised and dehumanised
- Erving Goffman
1961, ASYLUMS
- TOTAL
INSTITUTIONS
- 4 main characterisitic
- 1. BATCH LIVING: people
treated as if all the same, no
individuality
- 2. BINARY
MANAGMENT: staff and
residents (inmates) kept
seperate by 2 different
sets of rules
- 3. THE INMATE ROLE: on
admission person stripped of
past lives. Have a new identity
imposed on them that INST
has chosen for them
- 4. INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE: the inst way of
life takes over and determines
residents (inmates) and staffs
experiences and perspectives.
Often via events designed to
forge sense of community
- A total Inst is a
place of work
or living with
many people in
the same
situation, cut
off from wider
society, an
enclosed
formal way of
life
- Russel Barton
1959
INSTITUTIONAL
NEUROSIS
- institutional enviro itself can have a negative effect causing
- apathy, submissivness and resignation to the situation
- causes
- loss contact with ourtside world
- enforced idleness (wrd routine)
- bossiness of staff
- loss friends, possessions etc
- ward atmosphere, e.g:
poor furniture, small
and dirt
- when people experience
neglect and deprivation and a
poor physical enviro and
monotony of inst life they
become depressed and
unmotivated