Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in a Postmodern World

by James A. Holstein

Book Overview

Today, identities are created and selves are constructed in more organizational settings than ever before. Institutions large and small-from psychiatric hospitals, schools, and prisons to job clinics, counseling centers, and support groups-are virtually in the business of self construction. New institutions not only produce new forms of identity by presenting additional options for who and what we are but also place practical limits on the range of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195129288
• ISBN13: 9780195129281
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"