Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes what these institutions make of the inmate, and what he or she can make of life inside them. Special attention is focused on mental hospitals, drawing on the author's year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., one of America's most well-known institutions. It is the thesis of this book that the most important factor in forming a mental-hospital patient is the institution, not the illness, and that the patient's reactions and adjustments are those of inmates in other types of institutions as well. The first essay is a general portrait of life in a total instituion. The other three consider special aspects of this existence: the initial effects of institutionlization on the inmate's previous social relationships; the ways of adapting once in the institution; and the role of the staff in presenting to the inmate the facts of his or her situation.

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Self-Help

Goffman, Erving

Personal Transformation

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Loka : a journal from Naropa Institute

Fields, Rick, editor

How I Got Ovah New and Selected Poems

Rodgers, Carolyn M

Man in Africa

( Penguin 1976, Paperback. ) In this fascinating work of cross-cultural anthropology, Turnball examines the wide variety of African human experience.

Turnbull, Colin M.

The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society.

Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

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Schoenbaum, David

Europe

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HANDLIN, Oscar

Americas

A reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1967.
The most comprehensive one-volume collection in English of Marx's early writings (1835-1847) on the nature of religion, freedom of the press, the relation of the state to democracy, the humanistic critique of philosophical idealism, the alienation of humanity, and the relation of communism to historical praxis. Easton and Guddat’s translations are based on the best German editions and on the study of original manuscripts and first editions. A substantial Introduction and detailed analytical headnotes indicate the significance and historical setting of each selection, as well as its relationship to Marx's other writings. With one exception (Defense of the Moselle Correspondent) each article, chapter, or book section is presented in its entirety, without internal deletions.

Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Marx,Karl

Lloyd D. Easton, and Kurt H. Guddat

Politics & Government

The agrarian population of Latin America includes some 100 million of the world's most oppressed people. These people are the victims of a rigid stratification system which has existed in that continent for centuries. There has been much talk in recent years about lad reform in Latin America, but few analysts have come to grips with the fact that effective reform must involve revolutionary institutional change, not simply modernization of agricultural techniques. In an attempt to explore all the ramifications of this vital subject, Rodolfo Stavenhagen has collected papers by anthropologists, economists, political scientists, and sociologists. The author of the selections represent a wide range of nationality, including Latin American, North American, and European. Many of the selections appear here in English for the first time, and several are original contributions to this volume. This volume is part of a publishing program on Latin America, under the general editorship of Otto Feinstein and Rodolfo Stavenhagen. The purpose of these books I to present an inter-American dialogue on Latin American affairs from history and culture to economics, politics, and sociology. This program is designed to make the best scholarship from Latin America available to readers in the U.S. Rodolfo Stavenhagen is a Mexican who studies sociology and social anthropology at the University of Chicago, the national University of Mexico, and the University of Paris. He is the author of many articles on Latin America.

Agrarian Problems and Peasant Movements in Latin America.

Stavenhagen, Rodolfo (Compiled by)

In 1900 Edmund Husseri introduced to the world the idea of a new philosophy, "phenomenology," which, with its offspring "existentialism," has gradually become the dominant continental European philosophy. Husseri demanded of philosophy both a new rigor and a new humanism. He first showed how the philosopher can recover, by a kind of mental leap that Husseri calls the transcendental reduction, the ability to describe with scientific exactness the life of consciousness in its primordial encounter with the world about it. In addition he accused science of inundating Western European culture with abstractions that parade as final truth; he wished to ubderpin the accumulations of "facts" with more trustworthy descriptions of "essences" as they are presented to consciousness in a primordial intuition prepared by a reduction from the world of science to the life-world. With readings drawn from Husseri and his commentators, the editor presents an illuminating portrait of phenomenolgy as Husseri developed it between 1900 and 1938.

Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation

Kockelmans, Joseph J.

Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of it

Smith, Robert Ellis

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