Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: re: unemployment rate

[Chris Brooke]

>Jim Devine wrote:
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>>question: doesn't non-institutionalized also mean "not in a mental 
>>institution" (and by that I don't mean a university)?

This overlap between the language of "mental" and "academic" 
institutions is striking.

"Sectioning" in the US involves dividing groups of undergraduate 
students into their "sections" 'as part of a large university lecture 
course; in the UK it refers to someone being detained in an 
institution by the state under the relevant section of the 1983 
Mental Health Act. Something similar happens crossing the Atlantic 
with the concept of being "certified", too.

Chris
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