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Asylums

1961 collection of for essays by Erving Goffman
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Asylums

Summary

Asylums is a written work[1]. Asylums ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (127 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Asylums authored Erving Goffman[3].
  • Asylums's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • Asylums was published by Random House[5].
  • Asylums's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Asylums's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • Asylums was published on January 1, 1961[8].
  • Asylums's main subject is total institution[9].
  • Asylums's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Asylums'}[10].
  • Asylums's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'Q35760', 'amount': '+4'}[11].
  • Asylums's form of creative work is recorded as essay collection[12].

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Designation and Status

Asylums's instance of is recorded as written work[4].

Why It Matters

Asylums ranks in the top 7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (127 views/month).[2] Asylums has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

Erving Goffman United States

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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