@article{ref1,
title="Revisiting the Total Institution: Performative Regulation in the Reinventive Institution",
journal="Sociology",
year="2010",
author="Scott, Susie",
volume="44",
number="2",
pages="213-231",
abstract="This article revisits the concept of the total institution (TI), critically assessing the extent to which it has changed from being repressively coercive to relatively voluntaristic. I propose two new concepts, the ‘Reinventive Institution’ (RI) and ‘performative regulation’, to take the debate forward. The model of the TI outlined in Goffman’s Asylums has been (mis-)interpreted as rendering its inmates powerless, but they also demonstrated agency through gestures of resistance. Conversely, RIs, which members elect to join for purposes of self-improvement, appear to celebrate the subject’s autonomy but suggest a unique form of social control based on mutual surveillance. This performative regulation is enacted through the interaction order, as members actively produce, negotiate and legitimate the exercise of power.<p />",
language="",
issn="0038-0385",
doi="10.1177/0038038509357198",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038509357198"
}