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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 - November 19, 1982), Canadian sociologist and writer. Goffman received his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1945, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, in 1953. Author of the seminal text "Asylums" that describes "institutionalization" as a response by patients to the bureaucratic structures of a hospital setting



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