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Total institution
A total institution or residential institution is a residential facility where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life.[1]: 44 [2]: 855 [3] Privacy and civil liberties are limited or non-existent in total institutions, as all aspects of life including sleep, play, and work, are conducted in the same place.[4] The concept is mostly associated with the work of sociologist Erving Goffman.[5]
- ^ Frank, Jacquelyn (2002). The paradox of aging in place in assisted living. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 44. ISBN 0-89789-678-5.
- ^ Lammers, Stephen; Verhey, Allen (1998). On moral medicine: theological perspectives in medical ethics. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 855. ISBN 0-8028-4249-6.
- ^ "Extracts from Erving Goffman". A Middlesex University resource. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ Giddens, Anthony (2018). Introduction to Sociology. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 126. ISBN 9780393623956.
- ^ Goffman, Erving (1961). Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Anchor Books. ISBN 9780385000161.
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