GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CONCEPT OF SOCIALISATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Several types of total institutions exist: mental asylums, Nazi concentration camps, military boot camps, convents, and monasteries. Some scholars would also say that criminal prisons are total institutions, as they exhibit some of the same processes found in the other types.
Detailed explanation-2: -A gang is a group of individuals; therefore, no physical barrier exists to enclose the individuals in a common space and are not considered to be a total institution according to Goffman.
Detailed explanation-3: -Laws, rules, social conventions and norms are all examples of institutions.
Detailed explanation-4: -A ‘total institution’ is ‘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’ (Goffman, 1961: xiii).