CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CONCEPT OF SOCIALISATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following would be an example of a total institution?
A
school
B
job
C
church
D
prison
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -total institution: It is an institution that controls almost all aspects of its members’ lives. Boarding schools, orphanages, military branches, juvenile detention, and prisons are examples of total institutions.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -total institutions. Total institutions are defined by Erving Goffman (1961) as “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” (p.

Detailed explanation-4: -A public university is one example of a total institution.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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