This book describes how people who enter the title locations undergo a process of "reconstruction" in which they reevaluate their past; that process occurs as part of their "moral career."
This book argues against the title locations using the metaphor of pulling a drowning person out of a lake, teaching him to use the bicycle, and then putting him back into the lake. This work also notes in a section subtitled "Some Notes on the Vicissitudes of the Tinkering Trades" that the operation of the title locations was reminiscent of how 19th century craftsmen operated. This book describes how people who enter the title locations undergo a process of "reconstruction" in which they reevaluate their past; that process occurs as part of their "moral career." (*) In the essay that makes up this book's first part, the title locations are compared to prisons, monasteries, and military organizations, which represent a class of location in which a large group of people is cut off from the rest of society and controlled by a small staff. This work's author posed as the assistant to the athletic director of one of the title locations, which he described as a "total institution." For 10 points, name this Erving Goffmann work about the title mental institutions.
This book argues against the title locations using the metaphor of pulling a drowning person out of a lake, teaching him to use the bicycle, and then putting him back into the lake.
Asylums