How Long to Read Asylums

How Long Does it Take to Read Asylums?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Asylums by Erving Goffman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self. Each of the essays in this book were intended to focus on the same issue--the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Each chapter approaches the central issue from a different vantage point, each introduction drawing upon a different source in sociology and having little direct relation to the other chapters. This method of presenting material may be irksome, but it allows the reader to pursue the main theme of each paper analytically and comparatively past the point that would be allowable in chapters of an integrated book. If sociological concepts are to be treated with affection, each must be traced back to where it best applies, followed from there wherever it seems to lead, and pressed to disclose the rest of its family.

How long is Asylums?

Asylums by Erving Goffman is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Asylums Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Asylums aloud.

What Reading Level is Asylums?

Asylums is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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