Work of Goffman

Question 1

What field does Goffman cover?

Answer 1

Mental Illness

Question 2

Is Goffman an Marxist/Functionalist/Interactionist?

Answer 2

Interactionist

Question 3

What is Goffman concerned about?

Answer 3

How the attachment of the label of ‘mentally ill’ can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, through the consequences that follow for those individuals.

Question 4

What did Goffman argue psychiatric hospitals are example of?

Answer 4

Total institutions

Question 5

What is total institutions?

Answer 5

An isolated and enclose social institution, like a mental hospital or prison, whose primary purpose is to control most aspects of the individuals in them.

Question 6

What did Goffman suggest happens once a person is labelled as mentally ill and chooses or is forced to enter a psychiatric hospital as a patient?

Answer 6

Then the insanity roles is confirmed and the career of the psychiatric patient begins.