Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Goffman's Definition of Total
Institutions
- BATCH LIVING
- Communal bathrooms
- Shared living space and
bathrooms
- No privacy
- ST TRINIANS
- BINARY
MANAGEMENT
- Staff Superior/'inmates' inferior
- Kept Apart
- Controlled by rules and procedures
- ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
- THE INMATE ROLE
- People are stripped of their past lives,
individuality, choices and preferences
- Identity is chosen for
them by the institution
- THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
- THE INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
- Life is experienced and
understood through events
designed by the institution to
dictate their view of life
- THE TRUMAN SHOW
- 'Somewhere where people live and work that is separated from society and
run with fixed procedures that determine all aspects of people's lives'
- Lennox Castle
- Cedar Court
- Reader C.14 Abuse in
the bedroom
- Auxillary Work - low paid, monotonous
2 different areas - one public, one
hidden Rules and expectations different
in each one
- 'Bottom Wash' at 8am
every day. This work carried
out in the bedroom, where
nobody else could see
Upstairs, different picture.
All happy, clean and
presentable.
- Isolated
- Greenfield Ward
- Reader C.9
- BATCH LIVING Run Down Hospital Ward
for Women with Learning Difficulties
Locked Doors (no freedom), Communal
Living (no privacy), Scheduled bath and
bed times (no choice)
- BINARY MANAGEMENT
Staff had keys, needed
permission to go to the
toilet/get drink
- INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Not allowed to show negative
feelings, system of rewards and
penalties, bribes and observations,
same seat at mealtimes
- INMATE ROLE Told how to sit down
(back straight), no talking, stand up,
bed time, bath time, etc